Quotes About Luxury

Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind, have to do with the attractions which command our admiration.

When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.

Good wine is good. Great wine is great. More wine is better.

I could design an $800 shoe line it's easy. You use the best materials and you can make beautiful shoes. It's easier than making great shoes for $90.

It's always great to have things from France at a wedding. It's symbolic of style, of culture, of taste.

Owning a great golf course gives you great power.

We don't sell a car, we sell a dream. We are Italy's national team. There are many great soccer teams in our country, but there is only one Ferrari.

To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.

People who say that money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop.

What is too much? There is no such thing!

I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.

But it takes a lot of money to live freely by the sea.

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.

Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.

Fancy that thou deservest to be hangedthou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged ina hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp.

The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

What had he ever wanted that he could not buy? And if that wasn't riches he didn't know what was.

I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

Feel body as luxury-- as a bird feels when shooting through the air, and as a child does always -- is health

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.

The paid-off home mortgage has taken the place of the BMW as the status symbol of choice.