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Quotes About Luxury

In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and flaunting, material possessions.
~ Harsha Bhogle
I like Stella McCartney, Chloe, Alexander McQueen, Aaron Featherstone, normal Chanel if I can ever afford it, I'd be wearing that all the time! I like to admire from afar.
~ Brittany Snow
I perfectly understand the obsession with shoes. I myself am pretty obsessed. I have a few hundred pairs of shoes in general, because I've been collecting shoes for a long time.
~ Christian Louboutin
I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it.
~ Christine Baranski
Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.
~ Westbrook Pegler
It's a luxury to have so much time, especially with someone so important and busy. You have to get a feel for the person.
~ Igor Babailov
Luxury is not a static concept, but it shapes and changes with society. Now somebody who might not have the time to come to one of our boutiques can shop online.
~ Stefano Gabbana
It's been a long time since I've had champagne.
~ Anton Chekhov
I showed him the sea. It's a great luxury, being able to see it from the balcony. When cities are bombed there are always ruins and corpses left. But you can drop an atomic bomb in the sea and ten minutes later it's back as it was before. You can't change the shape of water.
~ Marguerite Duras
Pero no teníamos hambre, nosotros teníamos un criado y comíamos, a veces, es cierto, porquerías, zancudas, caimanes, pero tales porquerías estaban cocinadas por un criado y servidas por él y a veces incluso no las queríamos, nos permitíamos el lujo de no querer comer.
~ Marguerite Duras
Mai mult m-a preocupat chipul altuia. Îndat? ce acela începuse s? conteze în viaÈ›a mea, arta încet? s? mai fie lux, devenind resurs?, modalitate de ajutorare.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
La crudeltà è un lusso da oziosi, come le droghe e le camicie di seta.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
I love Prada. Not so much the clothes, which are for malnourished thirteen-year-olds, but I covet, with covety covetousness, the shoes and handbags. Like, I LOVE them. If I was given a choice between world peace and a Prada handbag, I'd dither. (I'm not proud of this, I'm only saying.)
~ Marian Keyes
Caviar is strange and disgusting. That popping texture, its like Space Dust for gourmets.
~ Marian Keyes
JLB: El lujo me parece una vulgaridad.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
The smallest pleasure, like a mouthful of canned fruit or the chance to bathe in an ice-cold river, was a luxury, something to be savored.
~ Mark Bowden
I think luxury is having a sense of personal continuity, of personal passion, in the midst of a busy public life, Julia postulates.
~ Mark Bryan
No such thing, the queen said, as too many sequins.
~ Mark Doty
Nevertheless, Rouen merchants who sold craspoix to the English paid high tariffs at London Bridge, which suggests this salted whale blubber was a luxury product in England. This would not be the last time the food of French peasants was sold as a treat for wealthy Englishmen.
~ Mark Kurlansky
The painstakingly extracted purple dye was a luxury item of such prestige that the color purple became a way of showing wealth and power.
~ Mark Kurlansky
In fact, the first experiments in refrigeration were not with fish or meat but with everyone's favorite luxury—butter.
~ Mark Kurlansky
The painstakingly extracted purple dye was a luxury item of such prestige that the color purple became a way of showing wealth and power. Julius
~ Mark Kurlansky
General S. P. Lyman quotes Webster concluding one recipe: "Such a dish, smoked hot, placed before you, after a long morning spent in exhilarating sport, will make you no longer envy the gods.
~ Mark Kurlansky
He smoked a jade-inlaid vape made from the femur of a capybara and insisted on wearing only clothes that were Vantablack
~ Mark Leyner