Expensiveness-Cheapness

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness (expensiveness) only that gives everything its value. (Thomas Paine)

The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty. (Thorstein Veblen)

It is cheap enough to say, 'God help you'. (Proverb)

Never cheapen unless you mean to buy. (Proverb)

Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap; it will be costly to you. (Thomas Jefferson)

Prosperity has everything cheap. (Thomas Fuller)