Quotes About Luxury

Even ivory towers need central heating.

I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author. "Wine is bottled poetry

I'm sayin', why spend mine when I can spend yours?

They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.

If you cannot afford yourself any luxuries for the time being, at least offer yourself the one priceless luxury no one can take away from you – your time

What a person want in life ?1. Simple, steady life.2. Self satisfaction and craziness from work and life he live.3. Luxury/Royal life.Choice is yours, in which way you want to live.

Luxury is not happiness - happiness is luxury.

A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people BOW DOWN to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour.

Never underestimate the power of a shoe.

People who achieve luxurious lifestyles are rarely satisfied: Experiencing luxury only whets their appetite for even more luxury.

When, as the result of being exposed to luxurious living, people become hard to please, a curious thing happens. Rather than mourning the loss of their ability to enjoy simple things, they take pride in their newly gained inability to enjoy anything but "the best.

HOW MUCH WEALTH should we acquire? According to Seneca, our financial goal should be to acquire "an amount that does not descend to poverty, and yet is not far removed from poverty." We should, he says, learn to restrain luxury, cultivate frugality, and "view poverty with unprejudiced eyes.

Ye who, borne about in chariots and sedans know no fatigue but that of idleness.

T]he people of plenty were a people of waste.

This? I thought, after a twenty-year civil war: This? Armageddon I expected; but Armani I did not.

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.

All the complaints and criticisms about the inequality of men apply to inequalities in property, luxury, and creature comforts, not to knowledge, virtue, or even physical beauty and strength. But

Oh he was like them, like those laced-up ladies—warm from wards. A man, he still chewed the nipple, titillation, and risked no freer, deeper draught. Fearless in speech, he was cowardly in all else…ah, to be rich, luxuriant, episcopal…well, he'd conquered that by flight.

The advent of the written word around 3300 BC lifted history's curtain and revealed an already well-established pattern of long-distance trade, not only in luxury and strategic goods, but in bulk staples such as grain and timber as well.

It stood on the east side of Ten Broeck Street, a three-block street in Arbor Hill named for a Revolutionary War hero and noted in the 1870s and 1880s as the place where a dozen of the city's arriviste lumber barons lived, all in a row, in competitive luxury.

no smell of piss or green beans. That was how you could tell for sure it was an upscale old-age joint. It smelled instead like a summer meadow, it smelled of daisies, it smelled like a preview of coming attractions.

The living room had that depressing look of expensive bad taste.

See, you always buy with notes. Coins are beneath you. You become a whisky-millionaire.