Quotes About Luxury

distracted dreams. She thought of the silent antechambers hung with Oriental tapestry, lit by tall bronze candelabra, and of the two great footmen in knee breeches who sleep in the big armchairs, made

It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.

Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

In this remarkable, complex world of ours, there are certain people who appear to lead charmed lives. They are blessed with natural beauty, have successful and fulfilling careers. They drive expensive cars, live in upscale neighborhoods, and are happily married to gorgeous and brilliant spouses.

luxury means little when there's no real freedom in the world

Make no mistake, most women are well aware that they've never had it so good when they enter a spa or salon, it is purely a hair/nails thing, a prelude to an evening of guilt-free fun.

Il n'y a pas une femme au monde qui n'aime le Champagne ! Il fait briller les yeux... encore, que les vôtres n'aient vraiment pas besoin de cet artifice ! J'ai vu bien des émeraudes moins belles !

En casa del Jacinto hay un sillón para morirse.

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

Porfirio Rubirosa.

Today, you're more likely to drown in a swimming pool than die a violent death. That's a luxury no one outside this generation has ever known.1

the Waldorf-Astoria crystallized the improbable and fabulous. It was more than a mere hotel. It was a vast, glittering, iridescent fantasy that had been conjured up to infect millions of plain Americans with a new idea—the aspiration to lead an expensive, gregarious life as publicly as possible.

A child of the new age of iron, steam, and mechanical wonders, the architect, Isaiah Rogers, virtually invented the modern hotel: a functionally complex and self-contained structure (and social organization) that was a sort of human terrarium. A closed world designed from the ground up for the specific purpose of welcoming, housing, maintaining, and feeding guests in advanced comfort, the hotel was no longer just a stop along the way: it was a destination in itself

When a man wants to send you some flowers, always say to him: "My florist is Cartier".

Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.

We are now suffering the evils of a long peace. Luxury, more deadly than war, broods over the city, and avenges a conquered world.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

Abortion is one of the most shocking, yet entirely logical, extensions of this obsession with comfort, convenience and luxury. Less dramatic, but just as deadly to millions of lost souls in our world, is our unwillingness to make even small sacrifices to reach them with the Gospel.

Luxury: The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

This is how you know you aren't young any more: you start to care more about thread count than immediate gratification.

Visiting my mind is like visiting the Hermès factory.

I've been introduced to some huge designers that I could never afford. It's really cool.

If you invest in something a little more expensive with longevity, you'll use it more.