Quotes About Luxury

And who among the company at Monseigneur's reception in that seventeen hundred and eightieth year of our Lord, could possibly doubt, that a system rooted in a frizzled hangman, powdered, gold-laced, pumped, and white-silk stockinged, would see the very stars out!

There's not a Hand in this town, sir, man, woman, or child, but has one ultimate object in life. That object is, to be fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon. Now, they're not a-going—none of 'em—ever to be fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon.

She indulged in melancholy, that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries...

What is the point of having all that money if you are never going to enjoy it?

Why money should be so precious to an Ass too dull and mean to exchange it for any other satisfaction, is strange; but there is no animal so sure to get laden with it, as the Ass who sees nothing written on the face of the earth and sky but the three letters L. S. D.—not Luxury, Sensuality, Dissoluteness, which they often stand for, but the three dry letters. Your concentrated Fox is seldom comparable to your concentrated Ass in money-breeding.

First world problems: When the hot fudge on your sundae turns cold.

The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.

I have a collar of pearls... On the ivory breast of a queen they have rested... I have topazes, yellow as are the eyes of tigers, and topazes that are pink as the eyes of a wood-pigeon, and green topazes that are as the eyes of cats. I have opals that burn always, with a flame that is cold as ice, opals that make sad men's minds, and are afraid of the shadows.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

The worst of a modern stylish mansion is, that it has no place for ghosts.

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

Kauffman Luxury Vintage vodka. Distilled fourteen times and filtered twice, once through birch coal, once through quartz sand, it was produced from the wheat of a single year's harvest, making it one of the only vodkas released with a specific vintage, like wine or champagne.

Driving a brand new car feels like riding around in an open billfold with the dollars flapping by your ears as they fly out the window.

While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.

While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.

Decidió ir derecho hacia San Angel. Caminó hasta Insurgentes y dio vuelta en Avenida de la Paz rumbo a Revolución. De los Godinez pasó a los mirreyes chavorrucos y a las forras chiquiguapas. Egresaban de los restaurantes medio jarras a pedir su auto al valet. Cayennes para los papis, Land Rovers para las nenas y en el inter, pose de padrotones ellos, de Cuqui la rayita ellas.

Never fly commercial. That's the moral of this story.

With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.

Oscar sat back and looked at me appraisingly. "I need to think. And to think I must have oysters and champagne.

impatiently and looked around the room. It wasn't anything a millionaire's wife would get excited about. Tony, my

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort

It was the first time I had had the opportunity of drinking champagne by the pint and it was a rewarding experience. I

one of his luxuries was to wake up in the middle of the night so that he could turn over and go to sleep again.

Gazelles are leaping, feeding on the mountains. Near are lakes. Round their shores file shadows black of cedargroves. Aroma rises, a strong hair growth of resin. It burns, the orient, a sky of sapphire, cleft by the bronze flight of eagles. Under it lies the womancity, nude, white, still, cool, in luxury. A fountain murmurs among damask roses. Mammoth roses murmur of scarlet wine grapes. A wine of shame, lust, blood exudes, strangely murmuring.