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Quotes About Luxury

Wealth ... and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and vicious-ness, and both of discontent.
~ Plato
Money is another pressure. I'm not complaining, I'm just saying that there's a certain luxury in having no money. I spent ten years in New York not having it, not worrying about it. Suddenly you have it, then you worry, where is it going? Am I doing the right thing with it?
~ Dustin Hoffman
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
~ Oscar Wilde
Where's the man could ease the heart Like a satin gown?
~ Dorothy Parker
So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.
~ Henry George
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
~ Truman Capote
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
~ Charles Montesquieu
Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost.
~ Thomas Morton
Cadillacs are down at the end of the bat.
~ Ralph Kiner
I explained to him I had simple tastes and didn't want anything ostentatious, no matter what it costs.
~ Art Buchwald
The future is the most expensive luxury in the world.
~ Thornton Wilder
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~ Ivo Andri?
That's a 'Fuck Me' car and you know it." ~ Dallas "Well, yeah. Maybe. But it's got to be fast." ~ Peabody
~ J.D. Robb
They are not to be scarfed, the cinnamon sticky bun, but savored.
~ J.D. Robb
Just Roarke, as far as I know. Big money there. Kind of guy that touches shit and turns it into gold bricks. You've got to start reading more than the sports page, Dallas.
~ J.D. Robb
How terrifying." Peabody widened her eyes, blinked them. "Locked in a suite of rooms, Dallas, with a big, soft bed, an entertainment screen, an AutoChef, a spa-like en suite. The horror!
~ J.D. Robb
And I want a mansion in Connecticut with a pool boy named Steve.
~ J.D. Robb
That is a beautiful tuxedo," Phury announced as he and Z pushed the door wide. "I have one just like it ." "Fritz has the candles lit," Rehv said from behind the twins. "Hey, nice tux. I haveone just like it." "Me, too," Phury agreed. "The fit is fantastic, isn't it." "The shoulders, right? Tom Ford is the best—
~ J.R. Ward
With that, she turned away. And that was when Butch was able to properly focus on the cropped jacket she had paired with her micro-mini and her sheer black hose and her Louboutins with the red soles.
~ J.R. Ward
El tiempo es un lujo, lo creas o no —dijo. —A mí me parece una maldición.
~ J.R. Ward
She didn't have to go to these things. And she could wear her damn diamonds in her bathrobe and be perfectly happy.
~ J.R. Ward
dessert place that was open until one a.m. and served liquor along with chocolate thingies draped in whatever topped with blah-blah-blah on a bed of poached uh-huh, yeah.
~ J.R. Ward
The latest twist on the pampering concept is spa parties, where a group of friends take over an entire spa.
~ Julie Burchill
The Emilia Wickstead customer is a sophisticated, accomplished woman who expresses her femininity and style through the way she dresses. She appreciates classic with a twist, yet luxurious and high quality clothing that make her feel confident, elegant, and ultimately chic.
~ Emilia Wickstead