Quotes About Luxury

You start making movies and people start seeing when you go to places, and all of a sudden you are getting clothes for free and all of a sudden you are getting food for free.

The truth ? the truth my dear Ashely is a luxury available only to those who are not involved in its consequences

The luxury of youth banished in the face of turmoil.

No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.

Palace life is full of flowers outside before the common eyes, but bloodshed inside before the senses of kings and princes.

From the darkest beluga to the golden almas, creamy and subtle, to the osetra, with its hint of walnuts and cream, to the small gray eggs of the sevruga, with its overwhelming flavor of the sea, Escoffier fed Sarah a universe of moons. And she, in turn, met each kiss that was deeper than the last.

As an example of wealth, good taste, and subtle intimidation, it took first prize.

Chef Danny O'Shea had truly outdone himself. In addition to the two types of salmon, and the foie gras brioches, of which Sally had just taken a second, there were artichoke bottoms filled with chervil-laced lobster, potato gaufrettes slathered with creme fraiche and topped with caviar, and wedges of hot fingerling potatoes coated with melted cheese and sprinkled with crumbled bacon. Carefully trimmed vegetable crudités garnished the platter of appetizers.

be spared. There would be an extravagant smorgasbord

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.

American motor-and-music city of Detroit. Two centuries after the settlement's founding, Cadillac's name was a synonym for mass-produced luxury. He thus has the best name recognition today of any French colonist, and his memory resounds in countless song lyrics.

Both of these were played on the family's new state-of-the-art gramophone that was electric and connected to a device resembling a cross between the cabinets made in the days of Louis XIV and a Rolls-Royce dashboard.

missed that place. Lavish, finely decorated

Jack Daniels. Damn, she broke out the good stuff for him.

The Audi felt like a banker's car: beautifully machined, competent but not compassionate, giving the driver a sense of admiration, but not involvement.

Every belt buckle must be gold, every drape silver, every veil like gossamer.

It pleases me to wear silk couture and pearls. I like the way it feels on my skin, the way it fits.

Albinoni streamed as clear as the sun into the dining room. The old mahogany glowed like bronze. The flatware winked.

Yeah, Jade was chasing me in a fancy limo—it was like a nightmare

will not be priced in the stratosphere.

One of the luxuries of being obscure is that one no longer has a status to maintain.

A private plane sits on a runway in Martha's Vineyard, forward stairs deployed.

The things Sarah called problems were wholly elective eg no first class seats, a leaking sailboat