Quotes About Luxury

I have the luxury of being alive and healthy, and I'm very grateful for that.

Luxury and elegance can be affordable, and I think a MUST!

When you have a lot of money, there's so many places you can go to manage your money. But when you don't have money, mathematically you actually need a financial plan more. You can't really afford to make mistakes. So why is this such a luxury product?

I should get a manicure more often.

profusion of fat purple and red cushions.

The Obamas do not seem abashed to enjoy their newfound largesse. They now own a $2.5 million home in Chicago's Hyde Park and a mansion in Washington, D.C., worth $8 million. The D.C. property, in the exclusive Kalorama neighborhood, has 8,200 square feet, including nine bedrooms, a two-tiered flagstone terrace with a courtyard and parking space for 8–10 cars.

I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?

Another great luxury is letting myself cry - I always feel marvellously peaceful after that. But it is difficult to arrange times for it, as my face takes so long to recover; it isn't safe in the mornings if I am to look normal when I meeter father at lunch, and the afternoons are no better, as Thomas is home by five. It would be all right in bed at night but such a waste, as that is my happiest time. Days when father goes over to read in the Scoatney library are good crying days.

And though I cannot honestly say I would ever turn my back on any luxury that I could come by, I do feel there is something a bit wrong in it. Perhaps that makes it all the more enjoyable.

Contemplation seems to be the only luxury that costs nothing.

red marble drawing-room, where an

It's a Cadillac all right." "The Rolls-Royce of automobiles," Ottum

The goal for our branding should be that every potential customer knows exactly where we want to take them: a luxury resort where they can get some rest, to become the leader everybody loves, or to save money and live better.

You'll come home to a clean, fresh house that will make you feel like the queen's own cleaning staff has come through your house." Or "You'll be wearing the tux you got married in within a few weeks!" Can you see how this kind of language is more motivating than "Your house will be clean" or "You'll lose weight"?

They replaced the text on their main page with short and powerful copy: "Find the luxury and rest you've been looking for." That became the mantra for the entire staff. This phrase was posted on their office walls, and to this day you can stop any team member from the sous chef to the groundskeeper and they will tell you their customers are looking for two things: luxury and rest.

Financial Advisor: "A Plan for Your Retirement" College Alumni Association: "Leave a Meaningful Legacy" Fine-Dining Restaurant: "A Meal Everybody Will Remember" Real Estate Agent: "The Home You've Dreamed About" Bookstore: "A Story to Get Lost In" Breakfast Bars: "A Healthy Start to Your Day

Rolex, Mercedes, Louis Vuitton y otras marcas de lujo, en realidad, venden algo más que coches y relojes: venden la identidad asociada al poder, el prestigio y el refinamiento.

A fashion victim is dressed in designer clothes from top to bottom.

No stinting here, not on the after-breakfast champagne.

I hate Gucci,' said Francis. 'Do you?' said Henry, glancing up from his reverie. 'Really? I think it's rather grand.' 'Come on, Henry.' 'Well, it's so expensive, but it's so ugly too, isn't it? I think they make it ugly on purpose. And yet people buy it out of sheer perversity.' 'I don't see what you think is grand about that.' 'Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale,' said Henry.

She was still a girl, a slight lovely girl who lay in bed and ate chocolates, a girl whose hair smelled like hyacinth and whose white scarves fluttered jauntily in the breeze;

It made me think of the nice old Marimekko-clad ladies I sometimes went to see in the Ritz Tower: gravel-voiced, turban-wearing, panther-braceleted widows looking to move to Miami, their apartments filled with smoked-glass and chromed-steel furniture that, in the seventies, they'd purchased through their decorators for the price of a good Queen Anne--but (I was responsible for telling them, reluctantly) had not held its value and could not be re-sold at even half what they'd bought it for.

But despite the gloss and sparkle of the job (champagne breakfasts, gift bags from Bergdorf's) the hours were long and there was a hollowness at the heart of it that-I knew-made her sad.

I hate Gucci," said Francis. "Do you?" said Henry, glancing up from his reverie. "Really? I think it's rather grand." "Come on, Henry." "Well, it's so expensive, but it's so ugly too, isn't it? I think they make it ugly on purpose. And yet people buy it out of sheer perversity.