Quotes About Luxury

beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich

Put out the torches! Hide the moon! Hide the stars! Let us hide ourselves in our palace, Herodias. I begin to be afraid.

Un cigarrillo es el moledo perfecto del perfecto placer. Es exquisito y lo deja a uno insatisfecho ¿Qué más podemos desear?

Comfort is the only thing our civilisation can give us.

El cigarro es un ejemplo perfecto de un placer perfecto. Es exquisito y deja a uno insatisfecho

the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.

There is a luxury in self-reproach.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

quand elle est en grande toilette, on dirait l'édition de luxe d'un mauvais roman français.

we live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities;

One could never pay too high a price for any sensation.

How exquisite life had once been! How gorgeous in its pomp and decoration! Even to read of the luxury of the dead was wonderful.

Hell couldn't be all bad if it had jewelry.

I prefer my water in wine form.

With great power comes great responsibilities. weigh he pleasure of leadership and luxury with the sword Damocles, When she believes the ancient is the key to all her needs, Then is when all will tumble down; then is when Light bleeds and bleeds...

Oh Brancepeth,' said the girl, her voice trembling, 'why haven't you any money? If only you had the merest pittance - enough for a flat in Mayfair and a little weekend place in the country somewhere and a couple of good cars and a villa in the South of France and a bit of trout fishing on some decent river, I would risk all for love.

Feel body as luxury-- as a bird feels when shooting through the air, and as a child does always -- is health

People forget that the price of luxury is an ever-increasing expenditure of nerve and brain energy, and the consequent shortening of their natural life span. Materialists become so engrossed in the task of making money that they can't relax enough to enjoy their comforts even after they've aquired them.

Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.

Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of step with others, studious idleness, the enjoyment of the major works of the mind - these are all privileges that cannot be bought because they are literally priceless.

Mansions were forming like jewels in my bloodstream.

my middle-class background had not prepared me for life without scented toilet paper.

Excess is essential to the production of austerity.

Skepticism is luxury.