Quotes About Luxury

Caviar. How very nice of them, Carol said, looking inside a sandwich. Do you like caviar? No. I wish I did. Why? Therese watched Carol take a small bite of the sandwich from which she had removed the top slice of bread, a bit where the most caviar was. Because people always like caviar so much when they do like it, Therese said. Carol smiled, and went on nibbling, slowly. It's an acquired taste. Acquired tastes are always more pleasant--an hard to get rid of.

Caviar. How very nice of them, Carol said, looking inside a sandwich. Do you like caviar? No. I wish I did. Why? Therese watched Carol take a small bite of the sandwich from which she had removed the top slice of bread, a bit where the most caviar was. Because people always like caviar so much when they do like it, Therese said. Carol smiled, and went on nibbling, slowly. It's an acquired taste. Acquired tastes are always more pleasant--and hard to get rid of.

Secrets," Kohler finally said, "are a luxury we can no longer afford.

the palace.

People always pay a lot of money for things that make them stupid.

If the government can afford luxury travel for its cabinet officials, then surely we can find the resources to invest in quality education, jobs skills training, and properly fund the State Department and foreign aid programs.

"Cats are connoisseurs of comfort."

"Great love affairs start with Champagne…"

In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.

I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.

Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious.

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at.

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

Life is short...eat desert first!

wealthy, privileged and bored by the undemanding

provided important additions to the palace larder.

the long luxury of your own freedom has made you incapable of doing us justice now.

That detestable product of the folly of our fore-fathers—a feather-bed.

People in high life have all the luxuries to themselves—among others, the luxury of indulging their feelings. People in low life have no such privilege.

Radicalism is a luxury of stability; we may dare to change things only when things lie steady under our hands.

Democracy is a luxury of disseminated intelligence, security, and peace.

When abundance comes, and the danger subsides, social cohesion is lessened, and individualism increases; communism ends where luxury begins.