Quotes About Luxury

Luxury cannot be obtained other than by enslaving other people.

A cigar is a sort of thing, not exactly a pleasure, but the crown and outward sign of pleasure. Come, this is life! How splendid it is! This is how I should like to live!

a nap "after dinner was silver — before dinner, golden.")

suits of Anderson and Sheppard, the shirts of Harman, the shoes of Lobb, and self-refrigerating conscience can achieve.

She marched along, wondering how it could be that some people had to work their fingers to the bone and risk their lives in order to make a living and others could just sail around in the lap of luxury.

Shopping, true feminine felicity !

In London you can buy a hamburger for $1,700. Now, wait a minute, before you start bellyaching, yes, it comes with fries. It's $1,700. It's called the McSucker.

Living in a castle is objectively romantic.

His bedroom was the gilded, diamond-studded, pearl-encrusted rococo lair of a god-king.

I was perfectly happy where I was, deliquescing, atom by atom, amid a riot of luxury.

The dark liquid looked black in the glass, and she had to restrain herself from gulping it. Fresh tobacco. Black currants. God, it was so good. She kept it in her mouth for a count of ten before she swallowed. If there was any magic in this world that was not magic, it was wine.

She was born with a silver flask in her mouth.

It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights. There may be something in this theory, but when their amusements are carried to such a point of luxurious and imaginative perfection it certainly gives them great and even unlimited enjoyment at the time.

The worst Persian voluptuary could never have imagined my most ordinary day.

I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.

For a clean makeup finish, I use Cle de Peau translucent pressed powder.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

I always like to dress up, you know what I'm saying? Put on nice, expensive clothes. But before it was even 'drip,' I used to be, like, 'swag.'

I used to literally spend every dime I had on clothes, shoes and getting fresh.

As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.

Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it.

I used to own two homes in Atlanta. But it was a lot of trouble. There are leaky roofs; you have to call people. It takes up too much time to own property everywhere. Now I stay at the St. Regis. I used to like cars a lot, too. I had 25 of them: Porsches, Ferraris.

I don't give interviews on Chanel because it is not useful for the Chanel business.

The vaults of Buckingham palace are groaning with priceless, useless freebies from foreign dignitaries.