Quotes About Luxury

To the capitalist, every luxury of the worker seems to be reprehensible, and everything that goes beyond the most abstract need – be it in the realm of passive enjoyment, or a manifestation of activity – seems to him a luxury.

Chocolate symbolizes, as does no other food, luxury, comfort, sensuality, gratification, and love.

She was wearing an aggressive three-piece outfit that was probably very expensive but had the kind of pattern you would get if you cut up the flags of several obscure countries and then gave them to a blind pigeon to stick back together again.

Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge.

Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.

Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people.

Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.

That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.

Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.

Most suits made the man. Gideon did things to a three-piece suit that should've been illegal.

There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with.

Men expect too much, do too little, Put the contraption before the accomplishment, Lack skill of the interior mind To fashion dignity with shapes of air. Luxury, yes but not elegance!

I have this terrific make-up man. But he's expensive. I have to bring him in from Lourdes.

Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

I discovered suddenly that alienation, exploitation of man by man, under-nourishment, relegated to the background metaphysical evil which is a luxury.

My dad has more sparkly stuff than most men.

No man is rich enough to waste his money in putting on style.

The spirit of commerce... renders every man willing to live on his own property...& prevents the growth of luxury.

It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.

Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.

I'll know I'm famous when I have five Ferraris, seven houses, Cameron Diaz on my arm and a little man following me with a huge bag of money.

A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.

Men love women but, even more than that, men love cars.

No noble man ever hated good wine.