Quotes About Luxury

And that obsession was only a shadow of the first one. Lately I wonder if it all goes back to the way you begin, and after that you love in that way, or go sleepwalking after something that evokes the luxury, fatality, sorrow, whatever the strong taste was, of that first one.

Truth is too big a price to pay for the luxury of avoiding pain now and then.

The primary dues a writer or any artist pays is to remain sentient, and to forfeit the illusionary luxury of such anesthetics as avoidance, numbness, and denials.

Funny. You talk of life as if it were a train you have to catch up with. How long have you been trying, three days? And not got a glimpse of it yet, in spite of caviar and champagne?

I'd rather wear bare skin than raw silk any day.

I quickly found myself in the center of the room, trussed up to a sturdy, high-backed chair, which Joaquin happily assured me was an original Louis the Fourteenth. Oh goody. I'd hate to die bound to something from IKEA.

human happiness buttons that can be pressed—the same basic factors such as friendship, health, community, overcoming challenges with your own ingenuity, and feeling in control of your life. These work for everyone. At the same time, most of us are tempted by the ideas of convenience, status, and luxury, and buying ourselves treats to satisfy these temptations. And we're really good at justifying some of these trinkets as our true passions.

Beauty has been stolen from the people and is being sold back to them as luxury.

The beauty of me is that I'm very rich.

Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.

The red sole was born from red nail polish. I am giving back to beauty what the shoes took from the nails many years ago.

You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur

Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.

There is a certain beauty and refinement that is often found in our world and it is expensive. It shouldn't necessarily be so. It is just the way our economic system is.

I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.

My husband is pretty particular about his cars. In his opinion, the Mercedes are the best of the best.

If diamonds are a girl's best friend, I wonder if blood diamonds are a girl's best friend 5 days out of the month?

The best way to get around in New York is to be both rich and patient.

The best thing about being rich is the freedom freedom to do whatever you want whenever you want. It doesn't suck.

I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.

When I was four, I asked my mother for a valet for my birthday.

People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.

I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

Show business is like Champagne. You'll appreciate it more if you don't drink it everyday