Quotes About Luxury

Bein' rich is having leftovers. Good leftovers make yo' tongue fly outta yo' mouth and smack yo' brains out.

I've just begin to realize that the capacity to be interested is a luxury, you know? It gets handed down like property.

don't know what it is about Africa, but champagne is absolutely compulsory here." Without

and an almond-scented blancmange custard that tasted like clouds.

It was Lavender who drove us to the Norfolk Hotel in Jock's yellow Bugatti. He sped through the streets of Nairobi, throwing me across the leather backseat towards Jock, so that I nearly bruised myself against his clenched thighs.

Under buttery gravy, there was the ubiquitous tommie steak with buttons of potatoes and pearled onions. My father was paying through the nose for the champagne, so I drank as much as I could, every time it came round.

Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby.

I'd like an armchair for the bedroom," he murmured. "What do we need an armchair in the bedroom for?" she said. "We have a couch outside." "Buy the chair and I'll show you." After the chair was delivered, he undressed her and kneeled between her legs upraised on the chair arms. Afterward she agreed it was money well spent.

I feel like I'm sitting on pins and needles. I am so thrilled." To add to her remarks, she flashed a 16-carat diamond wedding ring that she claimed she could not wear often because of its weight. She also announced that the count had given her all the jewelry and heirlooms belonging to his royal family.

The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and LUXURY is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.

Take up something that you know will never bring you any returns except pleasure—in other words, allow yourself to live the way brilliant eighteenth century courtesans lived. Don't be afraid of having a decorative life, even if all the decorations come from you.

I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.

Carys accepted a glass of white wine from the maidbot

He told his e-butler to have the maidbots start a decent meal and open some wine to breathe. By the time he got home it should be ready.

Oscar's Merc 1001 coupe drove him through the main gate at seven forty-five and slid right into the Operations Director's parking slot. He smiled at the few envious stares the car earned him from other members of the team as they pulled up outside the administration block.

Have you ever been rich, Detective?" "That's Hoshe, and no, I've never been rich." "They really don't live by the same rules as anyone else. Whatever they want to do, they just do it. I

Ah, that's the Jaguar-Chevrolet 2251 T-bird, the convertible

Tapas is a fancy way of saying a morsel of food for a fuckload of money, but I didn't mind, I was feeling flush.

O daughters of Israel, weep for Saul, who clothed you in scarlet and luxury, who decked your garments with ornaments of gold.

The king made the almug wood into steps for the house of the LORD and for the kingís palace, and into lyres and harps for the singers. Never before had such almug wood been brought in, nor has such been seen to this day.)

Additionally, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.

All King Solomonís drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.

Additionally, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.

All King Solomonís drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.