Quotes About Luxury

She'd buy diamond-studded earplugs and go and lie on a beach in the Caribbean where the whining of jealous bastards wouldn't reach her.

I don't want to go to heaven, I want to go to Claridge's.

But unscrupulous ambition has nothing to work upon, save in a nation corrupted by avarice and luxury.

Contain yourselves from the ungoverned wildness of pride, the sluggish voluptuousness of luxury, and the false name of knowledge: that so the wild beasts may be tamed, the cattle broken to the yoke, the serpents, harmless.

After escargots swimming in garlic butter, steak with the crispiest, thinnest fries imaginable, and simple salads of butter lettuce in a peppery Dijon vinaigrette, we share a cheese course, followed by a trio of desserts: lemon tart for me, blueberry bread pudding for Jean, and a poached pear for Ruth.

taking a small piece of the Parmesan that I have broken into craggy shards on the small wooden board I've laid out, with a wedge of triple-crème Délice de Bourgogne Brie, some nuts and dried fruits, a homemade quince and plum membrillo paste, and some tiny little German wild boar sausages that I've been hoarding since my trip to Berlin last year.

I like to have a massage therapist come to my house, get a massage, take a bath, go to bed. That's a perfect night alone for me.

Her palace shimered with onyx, garnet, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue.

Winter is a time of promise because there is so little to do — or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.

Life is a luxury, isn't it? there's no use in it--but how delightful!

not that I ought to grumble. I have money of my own, a luxurious home in excruciating taste, and all the clothes I want. All that is lacking is liberty, an aim to work for, and the conviction that my life is worth living. I am a most fortunate young woman.

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse -- as a luxury befitting a young man.

She might have to use her employee discount to buy something more threatening today, although at the moment the most dangerous thing she could think of that Neiman Marcus had to offer was the employee discount itself.

Did you know that there are $4,000 washing machines? Seriously. If a washer is $4,000 I want it to get the laundry out of my room and bring it back folded after it made me coffee told me it likes my hair.

You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented.

Toss back your coif and quaff, my querulous queen!

All around them the cacophony of greed carried on in its most glorious and extreme excess.

twelve-hundred-dollar chairs and wore sleek designer shoes with tassels. Gone were the days of thick rubber soles and function over form

His game is baccarat. Far as anyone knows he plays clean. He's just good at it. Spends

You don't put ice in Pappy Van Winkle.

We spared no expense.

La beauté est une putain Je préfère l'argent

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

What do you mean there is no bathrobe in my suite??!!