Quotes About Luxury

one could argue that he was the most spoiled dog in the history of humankind.

As far as luxury goes, about the only thing I do is... I go first class all the way. I live on the road, so when I'm out there, I'm getting the nice hotel suite, I'm getting the luxury car, I'm eating the good food, and I make sure I take care of myself on the road.

Happy endings are a luxury of fiction.

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

God, I remember when cappuccino was a delicacy.

Smiling slyly, pleased with herself, Lady Dant shut the wardrobe door, but she could not shut out from the mind of Mrs Harris what she had seen there: beauty, perfection, the ultimate in adornment that a woman could desire. Mrs Harris was no less a woman than Lady Dant, or any other. She wanted, she wanted, she wanted a dress from what must be surely the most expensive shop in the world, that of Mr Dior in Paris.

Your on the planet too. Why should James Bond have all the action, fun, money, and resort hotel living.

luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you and prevents you from knowing the world. That is its purpose...

or flying over the chaos in their private helicopters.

Yet because curiosity implies delay, and delay is regarded as a luxury (but what's the hurry, anyway?), we have become used to life being a series of arrivals or departures, of triumphs and failures, with nothing noteworthy in between.

I had my own compartment - plenty of space, plenty of provisions, the grapes, cookies, chocolates and tea that made being on the Trans-Siberian like a luxurious form of convalescence.

The deep appeal of the seedy" is Graham Greene's expression for certain places (he described it in West Africa), and it was compelling and comforting in Old Mazatlán, an ageless scruffiness, a sense of vitality in decay, an argument against luxury, boutique hotels, and pestering waiters in tailcoats. The pleasure of relaxing on a worn sofa.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allot myself the luxury of living it so badly.

People only allow themselves the luxury of being insane when they are in a position to do so.

We who are living in the lap of luxury with our pitiful little psychological problems have a tremendous responsibility to let our clarity and our heart, our warmth, and our ability ripen, to open up and let go, because it's so contagious

I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.

It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.

Cars for me are like a piece of art.

The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.

As the art world changes, artists have more and more responsibility. You don't have a lot of luxury to be super secluded.

To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.

Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.