Quotes About Luxury

Lara [Raith] was gorgeous, brilliant, and sexier than a Swedish bikini team hiking up a mountain of money.

I work in grand halls and bedchambers with wine and perfume. Not in dark alleyways with cloaks and knives. I don't like knives. I don't even own a knife. And my cloaks are far too expensive to risk bloodying.

All our progress of luxury and knowledge . . . we have not been lifted by as much as an inch above the level of the darkest ages . . . The last hundred years have wrought no change in the passions, the cruelties, and the barbarous impulses of mankind. There is no change from the savagery of the Middle Ages. We enter a new century equipped with every wonderful device of science and art but the pirate, the savage, and the tyrant still survives.

There were the youngest children, small girls with leis, barefoot. There were watercress sandwiches, champagne, lemonade, peach-colored napkins to match the sorbet that came with the cake, peacocks on the lawn. She kicked off the expensive shoes and unpinned the veil. 'Wasn't that just about perfect,' she said when she called that evening.

The Arquitectonica office, which produced the celebrated glass condominium on Brickell Avenue with the fifty-foot cube cut from its center, the frequently photographed "sky patio" in which there floated a palm tree, a Jacuzzi, and a lipstick-red spiral staircase, accompanied its elevations with crayon sketches, all moons and starry skies and airborne maidens, as in a Chagall.

Life is short, have dessert first.

sleep is such a luxury, which i cant afford.

The grandeur of a profession is...above all, uniting men: there is only one true luxury, that of human relationships.

The biggest luxury is a job in which I get to live in New York, travel the world, and work with so many incredible people.

When I was a baby, I wore my mom's Chanel pumps - to be able to say that I work with Karl Lagerfeld is a dream come true.

Spoiling yourself is what you call being selfish.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us.

There is luxury in self reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

A real woman always has a couple of really good and expensive dresses in her wardrobe. They play the role of a parade costume for cases when it's necessary to make an impression.

I liked my scotch undiluted, like I liked my truth. Unfortunately, undiluted truth was as affordable as eighteen-year-old single malt scotch.

Credit is what enables people to pay 20% to 35% extra for that product which they probably don't need.

Looking down on it from the helicopter, with a bottle of Jack in my left hand, a bag of pills in my right hand, and a blond head bobbing up and doen in my lap, I felt like the king of the world.

And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.

I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much.

The embarrassment of riches.

Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.

Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the luxury of a computer in your own home.