Quotes About Luxury

Bacon was not above the age in this matter; and his tendency to keep his expenditure several years in advance of his income forbade him the luxury of scruples.

The Ono-Sendai; next year's most expensive Hosaka computer; a Sony monitor; a dozen disks of corporate-grade ice; a Braun coffeemaker.

Hubertus Bigend, a nominal Belgian who looks like Tom Cruise on a diet of virgins' blood and truffled chocolates.

like a shark cruising a swimming pool thick with caviar.

But it looks a lot like finding the weirdest shit you can get away with in one night, in San Francisco, if you're willing to blow a metric fuck-ton of money to do it.

Did they want what I wanted? Did they want to understand, to unlock it? To decode it? To glean, to touch, to learn, to get something, to proceed, to get somewhere, to graduate, to work, to thrive; to someday, sometime, finally earn the luxury, the permission to … stop, to stop all of this, to relax, and forget?

I wore my first pair of Louboutins during this press tour. It was absolutely amazing, they weren't heels, they were little shoes, but they were velvet and they were blue.

Ludzka godno?? nie ma nic wspólnego z materialnym bogactwem. Zamo?ni ludzie mogÄ… wydawa? mnóstwo pieniÄ™dzy na wyposa?enie domu, ale w ten sposób powstaje jedynie sztuczny luksus. Ludzka godno?? wyrasta z u?ywania wrodzonych zdolnoÅ›ci i u?ywania wÅ'asnych rÄ…k - tu i teraz. Wymaga to zrÄ™cznoÅ›ci i wyczucia piÄ™kna. Nawet w najgorszej sytuacji nasze ?ycie nie musi by? pozbawione elegancji.

We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.

It's not like I'm this glamour diva who hands everything over and I just sit on my throne at home.

money,if it does not bring you happiness,it will atleast help you be miserable in comfort

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

It's so beautifully made,' she said. 'It's like a Prada shoe.

I often think it would be such a luxury to go mad, and not have to worry about anything. [...] There would be some sort of doctor there to tell me: "Don't worry, Mary, it's just that you're mad. Now be quiet and take this pill." And I would think, So that's all is is, and I would be glad. But aloud I would say, "What? I'm perfectly sane! You're mad...." Only mildly, though; just for show, really.

Paul and Olga enjoyed a gilded exile with their two daughters, in a home created together that was "worthy of a Pompadour or a Du Barry.

hand-crafted chair like an Arne Jacobsen or a Hans Wegner or a Børge Mogensen,' Charlotte goes on. 'Your average Danish home might also have a designer lamp like Poul Henningsen's PH or an Arne Jacobsen AJ from Louis Poulsen. Then

Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don't have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room.

All that gleaming leather and gold stamping and beautiful type belongs in the pine-panelled library of an English country home; it wants to be read by the fire in a gentleman's leather easy chair--not on a secondhand studio couch in a one-room hovel in a broken-down brownstone front.

We chose which houses we'll buy if we're born rich next time.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

I know it is more agreeable to walk upon carpets than to lie upon dungeon floors, I know it is pleasant to have all the comforts and luxuries of civilization; but he who cares only for these things is worth no more than a butterfly, contented and thoughtless, upon a morning flower; and who ever thought of rearing a tombstone to a last summer's butterfly?

It was clear that everything considered important and good was insignificant and repulsive, and that all this glamour and luxury hid the old well-known crimes, which not only remained unpunished but were adorned with all the splendor men can devise.

A cigar is a sort of thing, not exactly a pleasure, but the crown and outward sign of pleasure.