Quotes About Luxury

Here's how the Ritz looks at touchpoints, as written in the company's credo: "The Ritz-Carlton experience enlivens the senses, instills well-being, and fulfills even the unexpressed wishes and needs of our guests.

As men get older, the toys get more expensive.

In 63 BCE the city of Rome was a vast metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, larger than any other in Europe before the nineteenth century; and, although as yet it had no emperors, it ruled over an empire stretching from Spain to Syria, from the South of France to the Sahara. It was a sprawling mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

A man does not buy his wife a fur coat to keep her warm, but to keep her pleasant

1883, Printemps achieved the distinction of being the first department store in Paris to be lit electrically. Zola,

Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.

Une nouvelle fois, c'est l'accueil d'un hôtel sept étoiles dans les locaux d'un Formule 1.

Look at your eyes. You've got bigger bags than Louis Vuitton.

I needed books. They weren't a luxury good during that time in my life. They were a Class A addictive substance.

Everything looked expensive and calm, as if calm was something you needed money to pay for.

I am afraid that is, as they say, impossible. Time moves forwards. We have the luxury of time but we still can't reverse it. We can't stop it. We are one-way traffic, just the same as all these mayflies.

did notice that some of the buildings were larger and—relatively speaking—more ornately designed than others. Temples to the orgasm, I imagined.

The better we can accommodate ourselves to plain things, and the less we indulge ourselves with those artificial delights which have been invented to gratify men's pride and luxury, the nearer we approach to a state of innocency. Nature is content with a little and that which is most natural, grace with less, but lust with nothing. Matthew 1:8-15

As a complement to science, therefore, we must also cultivate a "science of the mind, "or what we can call spirituality. This spirituality is not a luxury but a necessity.

Adventurers and loners, romantics and desperadoes, eccentrics and slow suicides—the luxuriousness of the place, its seduction and savagery, calls to the wildest among us. Alaska, the land of black moons and midnight suns.

Mr. Kilt, editor of the Ottawa Citizen, in October of last year. Listen to this. 'What hope is there for a society with such extremes of wealth and poverty as our civilization shows? At the bottom rotting, corroding want and squalor; at the top, enervating luxury, reckless extravagance, useless purposeless lives.

The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.

With forbidden, seething Havana waiting to open up nearby, South Beach is a riot of loose luxe and easy sleazy, where dancing the night away amid hundreds of tanned, undulating bodies is a standard prelude to hot, anonymous sex.

I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.

The very idea of truth has been reduced to the purpose of a useful tool in the control of nature, and the realization of the infinite potentialities inherent in man has been relegated to the status of a luxury. Thought that does not serve the interests of any established group or is not pertinent to the business of any industry has no place, is considered vain or superfluous.

Loss of time through sociability, idle talk, luxury," even more sleep than is necessary for health, six to at most eight hours, is worthy of absolute moral condemnation. It

be sick in this way is to have the unpleasant feeling that you are impersonating yourself. When you're sick, the act of living is more act than living. Healthy people have the luxury of forgetting that their existence depends on a cascade of precise cellular interactions. Not you.