Quotes About Luxury

In the 1930s, anyone of any sophisticated status owned a cocktail shaker. Distinctive ones are easy to find.

Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.

As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.

I didn't buy the Porsche for status. I hate that, and it's actually kind of goofy now because in L.A., a Porsche is like a Honda. It was just that I could pay that much money for a car and drive it off the lot.

I think the people who end up being extraordinarily successful - it's been my observation - tend to care enormously about status, particularly business people, right? Because the only point of money, you know, the only reason to have a 300-foot-long boat is because they're bigger than 200-foot-long boats.

I have stayed in lots of great hotels around the world, and the Plaza Athenee is definitely one of my favourites.

I'm a hotel baby, absolutely: it's hard to think of a hotel I haven't stayed in.

I've stayed in enough hotels so I really know what works and what doesn't design-wise.

Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?

I'll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi's rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.

It doesn't matter if you're staying at a four-star hotel, you will never have your whole closet with you.

I don't have a crazy rider clause saying I have to stay at fancy hotels. I don't have a problem with staying at a Marriott. But I will admit that I've gotten just basic, regular service there.

There's this idea that when you make a certain amount of money that you should be staying at four-star hotels and taking town cars. And believe me, I will take a town car every day, but there are some things where it's like, 'Is this necessary? Is this important?'

When I first started in the business, I spent so much! Staying in a Trump Hotel for two years, spending eight Gs a month just living.

If you ever need a good steak, Stringfellows is the place to go in London.

If you like foie gras, that doesn't mean you no longer need a regular steak.

If it's a day to indulge, I like to have a burrito or a steak.

A good cut of steak is always a go-to splurge.

My daily watch is Rolex, stainless steel. They're light, they're comfortable.

I'm a real bath addict. I could sit in a bath and soak for days on end, and you'll never see me again. It's my easiest, nicest thing. So if you're giving me something extra to do, an extra step to make bathtime last longer, then I'll do it.

There are moments when you're stepping out of a really nice car on to a red carpet, and you feel inside like, 'This is quite nice,' but I'm never whisked off my feet.

I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.

Now the restaurants have begun to catch up with the wine-making there are numerous great restaurants in Napa Valley, and it's wonderful because the people are there for just that: great food and great wine.

To faculty everywhere, the lesson was obvious: the campus of a top university is not a place for intellectual exploration. It is a luxury home, rented for four to six years, nine months at a time, by children of the elite who may shout at faculty as if they're berating clumsy maids in a colonial mansion. A