Quotes About Luxury

In the nineteenth century, elites alone obeyed the laws of fashion, exchanging old possessions for new ones for no other reason than that they had gone out of style. Economic orthodoxy condemned the rest of society to a life of drudgery and mere subsistence. The mass production of luxury items now extends aristocratic habits to the masses.

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom. I feel lucky because I have the luxury of working only one or two days a week.

I'm cashmere, for God's sake," it grumbles. "I deserve better than Rubbermaid.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

And even sadness was also something for rich people, for people who could afford it, for people who didn't have anything better to do. Sadness was a luxury.

And even sadness was also something for rich people, for people who could afford it, for people who didn't have anything better to do. Sadness was a luxury.

Mis desequilibradas palabras son el lujo de mi silencio.

She wanted the best oils and perfumes, wanted the best kind of life, wanted the most tender hopes, wanted the best delicate meats and also the heaviest ones to eat, wanted her flesh to break into spirt and her spirit to break into flesh, wanted those fine mixtures— everything that would secretly ready her for those first moments that would come.

The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days

Luxury is a necessity that starts where necessity stops. —COCO CHANEL (ATTRIB.):

matched pair of Purdey shot-guns, one of which had not been fired,

Today, they separately demonstrate what a luxury it is to be a stable, prosperous, democratic nation with a dependable constitution.

I had landed in the lap of the only kind of luxury I have ever cared about – a wealth of opportunity.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

If I cannot have too many truffles I will do without.

If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

The seventeenth, Desmond! Come along at once; everything's all right. We're going to buy a huge bracelet for my wife, an enormous cigarette-holder for Madame Peloux, and a tiny tie-pin for you

I put on a martyred expression - like this - as if I was bored to death with every luxury under the sun. I had the time of my life.

I shall have everything ... and I shall lean over the edge of a white terrace smothered with the roses of my gardens and shall see the lords of the earth, the wanderers, pass by!'" - Colette, La Vagabonde

Advertising is not a luxury nor a debatable policy.

The isolated, self-sufficient nature of speculation spoke to his character and was a source of wonder and an end in itself, regardless of what his earnings represented or afforded him. Luxury was a vulgar burden.