Quotes About Luxury

There was nothing like a martini to blunt the day and polish the night.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

One group of senior directors took an extravagant junket to Uruguay to kill doves. They especially loved killing doves. Why? It couldn't have been the challenge. The group paid a Uruguayan farmer who had thousands of doves on his property to allow them to shoot there. One of the managers told me the air was so thick with doves that the hunting resembled a scene from Alfred Hitchcock's movie The Birds.

No one does antimaterialism better than multigazillionaire rock stars.

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

Other men like playing golf, but I like buying apartments.

And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product.

Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.

Die Welten sind nach der Hauptstadt gerauscht in ihren Cadillacs. Zum Hochzeitsfest.

Buying a lambo is stupid if you don't know how to use to make you money.

Only super-rich folk built fancy doors. You needed money coming out your ears before you spent it on a door.

I doubt any dragon ever had it so good anyway.

How did they decide what was valuable? Did they all just gather together, sit around in their suits and gowns, and say, "Oi. Let's start eatin' fish eggs, and make the stuff real expensive. That'll rust their brains, it will." Then they'd have a nice round of rich folks' laughter and throw some servants off the top of a building to see what kind of splats they'd make when they hit.

You came all this way, leaving behind luxury, to eat some pancakes." "Really awesome pancakes.

Hair is gross. It seems smart to shave it off." "You have hair." "I do not; I just have me. Think about it, Kaladin. Everything else that comes out of your body you dispose of quickly and quietly—but this strange stuff oozes out of little holes in your head, and you let it sit there? Gross." "Not all of us have the luxury of being fragments of divinity." "Actually, everything is a fragment of divinities. We're relatives that way.

They got these pancakes here," she said, "with things cooked into them. Supposed to be super tasty, and they eat them during the Weeping. Ten varieties. I'm gonna steal one of each." "You came all this way, leaving behind luxury, to eat some pancakes." "Really awesome pancakes." "Despite the fact that a deific Shardbearer is here-a man who went to great lengths to try to execute you.

Rich people, she decided, loved to stick with a theme.

Not all of us have the luxury of being fragments of divinity. Actually, everything is a fragment of divinities.

for as long as he had lived, everything had been provided for him. Answers to his questions, entertainment to sate his whims. Almost by accident, he had become a glutton.

There's nothing like self-pity for thoroughly dissipating a man. And when a nation indulges in that luxury it finds itself with a dictator.

Tea at the Ritz is the last delicious morsel of Edwardian London. The light is kind, the cakes are frivolous and the tempo is calm, confident and leisurely.

Perhaps tranquility is what distinguishes the environment in which wealthy people live, he thought. - Kurt Wallander

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Men have become the tools of their tools. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.