Quotes About Extravagance

As book collectors know all too well: We only regret our economies, never our extravagances.

While he dropped fortunes at roulette and insisted on his guests having the best view and every delicacy in restaurants, he himself would often walk home or take the Underground rather than choose the comfort of a cab.

It's tough working as a single parent, but I'm lucky enough to have chunks of time when I'm at home and a huge circle of friends and family, although my biggest extravagance is child care.

You know Bad News, 'The Young Ones?' I learned not to spend a buttload of money on a sixth member.

I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don't know when to come down.

I'll show up at Fashion Week with a mink on with a lion head biting my shoulder. I would love that. Oh my God, with a jaguar tail on my shoes. Something crazy.

My heart's so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love in public; and the foolish world, Which knows not tenderness, will think me mad.

Isn´t it strange how wealth is always wasted on the rich?

Isn't it strange how wealth is always wasted on the rich?

Sumptuary laws, as they were known, laid down precisely, if preposterously, who could wear what.

What would Entertainment Tonight say if they knew you were doing it on your office floor when you have twenty bedrooms? Slowly he pushed forward, entering her. They would say, 'That lucky Addison bloke,' he breathed, 'having sex with the beautiful, gorgeous, funny, brilliant, multi-talented Samantha Jellicoe.

Whoa!" Shawna paused on the sidewalk outside her Brooklyn apartment complex and gaped at the limousine idling in the street. "You went all out.

Can nothingness be so prodigal?

They had an efficiency, a great beauty, And were extravagant, like torture.

You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I'm inclined to extravagance.

There are those who hold that to quibble over matters of taste in the basic necessities of life is an extravagance

Porfirio Rubirosa.

Luxury cannot afford to intimidate.

Luxury is not a $4,000 T-shirt - that's just an expensive item, the same as if a can of Coca-Cola cost $5,000.

I use my American Express card whenever possible because I earn Air France points, which have taken me to America in business class. I like top quality so I will pay well for an item if I think it is finely made, but I'm not extravagant.

As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.

You wear fur, it's like you trying to be something you not. You get fur, you can spend the same money on like, 30 jackets.

I honestly don't need much money. People love to buy me drinks. Hostesses love to feed me. Famous artists lavish me with expensive artworks, and heiresses do the same with jewels that I promptly lose.

One group of senior directors took an extravagant junket to Uruguay to kill doves. They especially loved killing doves. Why? It couldn't have been the challenge. The group paid a Uruguayan farmer who had thousands of doves on his property to allow them to shoot there. One of the managers told me the air was so thick with doves that the hunting resembled a scene from Alfred Hitchcock's movie The Birds.