Quotes About Extravagance

She was done up like a Christmas tree--over-ripe mouth, beads of mascara thick on her eyelashes, green eyeshadow, a hat with a trailing drape that wound twice around her throat and hung down her back. The only thing missing was a man on a leash.

one could certainly make the argument that there's a deep structural affinity between wasteful extravagance and bullshit...

Luxury is a word of uncertain signification, and may be taken in a good as in a bad sense

Tristram Shandy may perhaps go on a little longer, but we will not follow him. With all his drollery there is a sameness of extravagance which tires us. We have just a succession of Surprise, surprise, surprise.

If you don't really want to overdose on whipped cream, do not order a hot chocolate Viennois.

They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.

Thank God, He does not measure grace out in teaspoons.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

All good hotels tend to lead people to do things they wouldn't necessarily do at home.

I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.

A la Rothschild, a style I define as many good things used irreverently.

Ann Sothern's dressing room...was unbelievably lush and beautiful. More elegant than many homes I've been in.

I cannot wait to go get my fried butter on a stick, and fried cheesecake on a stick and...Twinkies, especially in honor of those who would rather just be forced to eat our peas.

Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens.

Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.

Soak blanket in gravy and make a delicious brick wrap. Serve in All Gravy Room at the Mandrake Hotel.

Nothing Succeeds like excess!

Why Banning Miller, what a vision you are in your fine dress. Must've taken a dozen slaves a dozen days to get you into that getup. 'Course, your daddy tells me it takes the space of a schoolboy's wink to get you out of it again.

by some obscure process of logic, she felt that her momentary burst of generosity had justified all previous extravagances, and excused any in which she might subsequently indulge.

Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury; it was the background she required, the only climate she could breathe in.

The extravagance in dress—" Miss Jackson began. "Sillerton took me to the first night of the Opera, and I can only tell you that Jane Merry's dress was the only one I recognised from last year; and even that had had the front panel changed. Yet I know she got it out from Worth only two years ago, because my seamstress always goes in to make over her Paris dresses before she wears them.

Rich and idle and ornamental societies must produce many more such situations;

Have we not already seen enough of the fallacy and extravagance of those idle theories which have amused us with promises of an exemption from the imperfections, weaknesses and evils incident to society in every shape?

The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.