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Quotes About Luxury

Mid-life crises, in Fran's ageing view, are a luxury compared with what she has seen of end-of-life crises.
~ Margaret Drabble
We pray, give us this day our daily bread—not our daily caneton à la presse. Luxury should be the détente after work, the riot after abstinence, one should not become used to it.
~ Unknown
Let them eat cake.
~ Maria Theresa
cigarettes he smoked. As if he were the Duke of
~ Marianne Faithfull
I am now eased in my finances and replenished in my wardrobe.
~ Andrew Jackson
Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.
~ Frederic Raphael
Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas.
~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
I have experienced some amazing food! Yet when I think about the most luxurious and exquisite meals I have had, visions of simple food made from a few natural ingredients are what most excite me.
~ Mark Hyman, M.D.
Here we supped . . ., having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained to it.
~ John Evelyn
The only thing I really get snobby about is - not food or wine or certainly not television - I would say I get snobby about skin-care regimens and people taking care of their skin in the right way.
~ June Diane Raphael
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
~ Ben Bradlee
Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.
~ Aldous Huxley
Clothing should be like food. There should never be a $5000 sweater. You know what should cost $5000? A car.
~ Kanye West
If someone else is paying for it, food just tastes a lot better.
~ Gilbert Gottfried
If you offer me a job sitting in a Winnebago with make-up girls and free food, I'm probably going to take it.
~ Ross Kemp
Italy is famous for fashion, food, Ferrari, and furniture - furniture was a segment where the companies in the high end are all small.
~ Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
Hot air balloons are terrific to shoot from, although they have become very expensive, as has most lodging and food in the Napa Valley.
~ Peter Menzel
I enjoy wine collecting and great food.
~ Deep Roy
Walk your dogs on the beach that's my luxury. The food's not so good in West Palm, but you can't have it all.
~ Unknown
In Africa, we have the bush meat trade, which means that, on a very large scale, animals are being killed in the forests and sold in the cities as a luxury food.
~ Frans de Waal
She felt about her zester the way some women do about a pair of spiky red shoes--a frivolous splurge, good only for parties, but oh so lovely.
~ Erica Bauermeister
Good-quality travel and good-quality food are the two luxuries that I never have any guilt indulging in.
~ Charlie Hunnam
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
~ Mae West
Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don't feel alive.
~ Joni Mitchell