Quotes About Luxury

From a shallow standpoint, I like nice things.

To be truly soigne, a man should have 80 suits.

Only fine cigars are worth smoking and only men who smoke fine cigars are worth kissing.

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

Golden roofs break men's rest.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.

Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.

All these young millionaires were anarchists, of course: when a man possesses everything it is the supreme luxury for him to deny society: for in that way he can evade his responsibilities

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

I want to make beautiful clothes for women and men who appreciate detail and quality. The product must be the best but this is almost secondary to the service the customer will receive.

When a man is starving in the streets he is not thinking of bread and water, but of caviar and champagne!

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.

Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards.

Men aren't necessities, they're luxuries.

I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

POSH Before air-conditioning, cabins on the side of ocean liners facing the sun became unbearably hot. Thus richer passengers paid a premium to have their tickets on the P&O Line from England to India stamped "Port Out—Starboard Home." So p.o.s.h. became a synonym for someone who was upper class. PULL

I belong to those for whom the superfluous is necessary.

a sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.' Oscar Wilde