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Quotes About Luxury

This is going to make me sound awful, but I was 18 when I took my first flight because the Prince of Brunei flew Mis-Teeq over to play at his birthday party! I was in business class being fed amazing food. I got over my fear pretty quickly.
~ Alesha Dixon
Buyers of powerful cars place a high premium on the exhaust note, and manufacturers spend a lot of money getting it right. At the same time, high-end cars are expected to filter out the sounds of the mundane world.
~ Serge Schmemann
When I'm on the road for fashion shows, I love room service. I think it's one of the greatest things in the world. I usually like to keep it simple with soup, but my big indulgence is French fries or chicken fingers.
~ Zac Posen
With caviar, you place a blob of it on sour cream or on a lettuce leaf and everyone is happy. I'm trying to get away from that.
~ Alvin Leung
I think Mustique is Duchampian - it will always provide an endless source of delight.
~ David Bowie
My son loves the Hotel du Cap, in the south of France.
~ Diane von Furstenberg
I partied in every capital in Europe, basked on all the famous beaches, and good-timed it in South America, the South Seas, the Orient, and the more palatable portions of Africa.
~ Frank Abagnale
My very sassy, older southern sister is very quick to point out that it's a luxury that my daughter gets to come to work with me. She does, and I have lunch with her every single day. My mom says I have 'high class problems.'
~ Angela Kinsey
People automatically associate the caliber of the space based on the appliances.
~ Scott McGillivray
I'd always just look at Chanel and Kate Spade and think how incredible these brands were.
~ Sadie Sink
At times all you need is a bottle of fine old wine, a mellifluous piece of music playing in the background and a good book to spend the entire night in a magical bliss!
~ Avijeet Das
Long as I live large, life will be luxury, Ladies in Lamborghinis...love is like luck to me.
~ Redman
Now I am punished by privilege and comfort—and I can't resist comfort.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We'll have lunch on a terrace overlooking Lake Como
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Poison is drunk in golden cups
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Hamburgers, to many of us, are vastly tastier than filet mignon because of the higher fat content, but people have been convinced that the latter is better because it is more expensive to produce.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
a golden liquid, worth more than liquid gold;
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Là, tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté, Luxe, calme et volupté.
~ Charles Baudelaire
I began to feel like a kept man and it felt great.
~ Charles Bukowski
I had a cigar in my mouth and whiskey on my breath. I felt like money. I looked like money.
~ Charles Bukowski
si un hombre no puede permitirse unos cuantos lujos es que no va a durar mucho tiempo.
~ Charles Bukowski
What do I think is important? Good wine, good plumbing and to be able to sleep late in the mornings.
~ Charles Bukowski
Like most Maya rulers, Chak Tok Ich'aak spent a lot of his time luxuriating in his court while dwarf servants attended to his whims and musicians played conch shells and wooden trumpets in the background. But
~ Charles C. Mann
In contemporary hunting and gathering societies, anthropologists have learned, gathering by women usually supplies most of the daily diet. The meat provided by male hunters is a kind of luxury, a special treat for a binge and celebration, the Pleistocene equivalent of a giant box of Toblerone.
~ Charles C. Mann