Quotes About Luxury

The warmly cool, clear, ringing perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up — flaked up, with rose-water snow.

Cure for a red nose. Drink like the devil till it turns adelite. A lot of money he spent colourig it.

Most criminals are stupid. They creep $500,000 homes in the Garden District, load up two dozen bottles of gin, whiskey, vermouth, and Collins mix in a $2,000 Irish linen tablecloth and later drink the booze and throw the tablecloth away.

speculation on the nature of creation is a luxury reserved for scholars. The rest of us have to deal with one another and ferret our way through the snares and pitfalls that we create for our fellow man.

Lots of women are gifting themselves with diamonds for their right hand.

He gave me a warm smile, and I blinked, realizing he was cute. I'd never really had the luxury of noticing cuteness or lack thereof in guys. Mostly it was the lethal/nonlethal distinction that I went with

Miss Moneybags.

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foie gras and caviar tureens. About

Towers—eight high-end

Oscar Wilde said, "I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best," he thought.

shipshape honeymoon hotel.

Bloomingdale's.

754 Fifth Avenue

for the wealthy.

throughout the open space, and a two-story fireplace. The bedrooms all have mountain vistas, and the patio has a multimillion-dollar view of a great, green, tree-studded lawn. Edmund Washburn, a big teddy bear of a man, had fired up the

and a huge diamond

Unfortunately, fur is still flying off the racks. It's a billion dollar industry.

People from my father's generation didn't have the luxury to be unhappy in their job.

The lipstick, to make a matte that feels like heaven, is unheard of.

Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.

I like unique little boutique hotels, such as Blakes in London.

I'm not in the luxury-goods business. I sell unique objects. I wish I was in luxury goods because then I could just call the factory and say, 'I need 10,000 more of whatever.' But I can't - because then it's not art, it's something else.

If I were to look in the United States or in Europe, in some of the garages, you would have a Bentley or two Bentleys or a high-end Mercedes, and you may find a Smart also in that same garage because that person thinks it's a fun extra car to have. He may have four cars but also have a Smart because he thinks it is cute.