Quotes About Extravagance

An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.

It is impossible to overdo luxury

There is no real fulfillment in meaningless rushes of pleasure. You try to conceal the emptiness with more extravagance, only to find the thrills becoming less satisfying and more fleeting. Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course.

The luxuriously rich are not simply kept comfortably warm, but unnaturally hot; as I implied before, they are cooked, of course _à la mode_.

Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius.

every one" was out of town perhaps the servants, in the extravagance of their leisure, were profaning the tables.  The heat was insufferable

In New York City nightlife in the '90s, everything was camp!

My father had his own business, a clothing store, which he inherited from his father. He travelled abroad frequently and was quite extravagant, so we had skiing holidays and summer holidays on the beach.

My mum likes to remind me of the birthday treat I asked for when I was just 13... and that was for them to hire a stretch limo for my birthday when we travelled to L.A.

I would never want to model as my career, but fashion is my hobby. When you love what you're wearing, you feel good. I also love the extravagance of John Galliano for a big occasion. But I'm very bad with following trends.

were hitched at mangers filled with hay. Strapped to the flanks of each horse was a table. Guests, in formal riding attire, mounted their assigned horses and were served course after course of food by waiters dressed as grooms. From the shoulders of each horse, meanwhile, were slung two saddlebags, each filled with ice and bottles of champagne. As they dined, the guests sipped champagne through

James Hazen Hyde gave his $200,000 ball at Sherry's, at which the ballroom was transformed into a replica of the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles.

Horseback Dinner given in 1903 by Mr. C. K. G. Billings. For this party, also at Sherry's, the ballroom was filled with live trees and shrubs to represent a forest glade. The floor was sodded, and all about the room "blue bloods of the equine world

Expensive pleasures will soon bring the richest person down.

Las Vegas is sort of like how God would do it if he had money.

A lot of celebrities have a sense of humor, and combined with an outrageous event, sometimes the sky's the limit!

I prefer clothes that are simple, well-cut, but with one major extravagance. Something with the sleeves, with the skirt, but nothing too fussy, too flashy.

The super-rich watch each other like envious owls, to see who's got a slightly better loafer, a pullover made from some even more absurdly endangered fur. They will go to any lengths to find the best tailors.

I don't think of myself as just a rapper. But overspending on sneakers? That's a real rapper thing to do.

She couldn't quite believe it, even after all these years. It was a phenomenon of stupendous and unjustifiably useless extravagance. Yet here it lay, soft and powdery, edibly pure.

Behemot ukroi? sobie kawa?ek ananasa, posoli? go, popieprzy?, zjad?, a potem tak brawurowo chlapn?? drug? setk? spirytusu, ?e wszyscy zacz?li mu bi? brawo.

sterlet in a silvery chafing dish, sterlet slices interlaid with crayfish tails and fresh caviar? And eggs en cocotte with mushroom purée in little dishes? And how did you like the fillets of thrush? With truffles? Quail à la génoise?

I was fascinated looking at John Galliano's couture. They're just extraordinary extravaganzas and I love it. I love looking at it because it's like going to a museum.

I love fruit, when it is expensive.