Quotes About Luxury

Without this, your life is incomplete." Automobile commercials are particularly amusing in their overemphasis on these messages. They present ownership of their particular car as some sort of euphoric experience. In reality, we all know that cars are terrible investments that depreciate faster than anything else, and that when we purchase a new one, we spend most of our mental energy worrying that it will be stolen or damaged in the local mall parking lot.

It is only to the happy that tears are a LUXURY.

Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore.

Doch Warten war ein Luxus, den er sich nicht mehr leisten konnte.

You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.

She has the complexion of a wealthy infant.

What was it like, the luxury of not hurting?

Since the end of the nineteenth century, this palace hotel on the spacious Place Vendôme in the city's first arrondissement, or "district," had been an international symbol of luxury and all that was glamorous about modernity,

The propaganda maestro of the Third Reich, Joseph Goebbels, famously declared that the capital would be gay and happy—or else. Orders from Berlin specified that the Hôtel Ritz would be the only luxury hotel of its kind in occupied Paris.

Agents and spies playing deep and dangerous games of intelligence and counterintelligence also soon made their way to the Ritz.

Oscar Wilde might have despaired of the modern plumbing, but the early American visitors praised the Hôtel Ritz as the pinnacle of new luxury hotels.

They dined that night on champagne and lobster, despite widespread hunger in the capital. Overall, it was best to ignore the war as far as possible on such occasions. This was the tacit social convention. So instead of the trenches and troops, one talked of art and travels and scandal.

lobster salad and champagne were the only things a woman should ever be seen eating.

Today, Champagne Veuve Clicquot is owned by the luxury conglomerate LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, acquired 1987), which also owns Champagne Moët et Chandon.

In fact, fashion had flourished under the occupation, and a good part of the luxury industry, in one way or another, had made its peace with life under the Germans.

For those who had lived as guests at the Hôtel Ritz during the German occupation, the liberation was the end of one story about luxury and modernity and Paris. It was the passing of the generation that had changed the shape of the future in the 1910s through the 1930s.

I think women like Ferraris. A Ferrari is everybody's car.

I'm a huge fur fan; it's no secret to anyone anymore.

Neither do I have the time or the luxury of having a relationship. I don't want to get into fights with someone because I have no time for him.

I didn't have Cartier. I didn't have Gucci, Louis, none of that.

I normally wear Stuart Weitzman or Kors Michael Kors.

I love buying things I wouldn't normally buy, especially cigars.

For me, Lancome was more than just a brand. There was something very nostalgic about the name, about the whole story.

I think I'd have to say my favorite IWC. They have been around for so long and the craftsmanship is top notch. A watch maker that has been in business over 100 years has to know what they are doing.