Quotes About Luxury

dined on trout and truffles in the Bois de Boulogne beneath chandeliers that hung from the chestnut trees

I wore a blue silk Brunswick jacket, close-fitting and edged with dark fur, and a matching petticoat, both quilted with a pattern of diamonds and swirling flowers. My gloves were bright green kidskin, and on my head I wore the one extravagant hat I'd brought, the sweeping brim covered in black velvet and crowned with a profusion of scarlet ribbons. I, Eliza Hamilton.

That's the thing about luxury, darlings. The moment you become accustomed to it, it is no longer a luxury but a necessity. People forget this.

Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression. Isn't there some other way to look at this? After all, angst of these dimensions is a luxury item. You need to be well fed, clothes, and housed to have time for this much self-pity.

living in the palace of Versailles must have felt like being imprisoned in a constantly turning kaleidoscope.

He was a true voluptuary, in his own modest way, with a voluptuary's genius for softening the world around him.

My glass is not only half-full, it holds five-hundred-dollar-a-bottle Dom Perignon champagne.

The walls of this elevator are made of crystal so that you can watch the people on the ground floor shrink to ants as you shoot up into the air. It's exhilarating and I'm tempted to ask Effie Trinket if we can ride it again, but somehow that seems childish.

That was Mahogany!!

It feels like such a luxury, sleeping with Peeta again.

If I get home, I'll be so stinking rich, I'll be able to pay someone to do my hearing.

Never mind. If I get home, I'll be so stinking rich, I'll be able to pay someone to do my hearing.

the train? The rich food made

Haven't you heard? Money doesn't buy happiness. Just really nice cars.

I told myself that I would not come back to women's fashion until I felt I had something new to say. I feel that fashion has become too serious and that the actual customer's needs have not really been addressed. Fashion needs to make one happy. It is a luxury and should enhance one's quality of life.

In a gallery, there's an expectation of high prices and a somewhat elitist atmosphere.

Fashion is always seen as somewhat frivolous and self-indulgent. And I think people on the inside maybe don't see or understand how exciting and diverse a business it is.

For me, the most luxurious place is somewhere that allows you to feel emotions and pleasures.

I'm Ric Flair! The Stylin', profilin', limousine riding, jet flying, kiss-stealing, wheelin' n' dealin' son of a gun!

I'm not an author, but as a songwriter, I'm afforded this kind of luxurious ambiguity in songs of being able to confess the secrets of my relationships with people and face basically no consequences, or ask for no approval or permission.

I've had the great luxury in my career to be so successful as a songwriter that I didn't have the desperate need to have material to tour behind. It took a lot of pressure off me.

Gold, we think, is something polished and perfect, sophisticated, a luxury. But in its natural state, it's a raw element.

The food being presented at the most expensive restaurants, by the most sophisticated chefs, was not always recognizable as food to the diner - it required a leap of faith, and I felt curious about that phenomenon.

The best investment would be a Monika Chiang handbag. Her stuff is so on point. Her pieces are really classic, sophisticated, expensive-looking and they're just chic.