Quotes About Luxury

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?

I want to upholster the inside lining of my nostrils with leather, to have that "new car smell" all the time.

remote work has opened the door to a new era of freedom and luxury. A brave new world beyond the industrial-age belief in The Office.

El nuevo lujo es el lujo de la libertad y el tiempo.

Audi takes on Lexus's automatic parking systems with ads that say Audi drivers know how to park their own cars.

The new luxury is to shed the shackles of deferred living—to pursue your passions now, while you're still working. What's the point in wasting time daydreaming about how great it'll be when you finally quit?

The new luxury is the luxury of freedom and time. Once

The new luxury is the luxury of freedom and time. Once you've had a taste of that life, no corner office or fancy chef will be able to drag you back.

The new luxury is to shed the shackles of deferred living—to pursue your passions now, while you're still working.

perfect information is a luxury you can rarely afford. All you can do is make the best decision with whatever imperfect information you do have.

Designer labels are primarily collective identities that you buy into. They are expensive and therefore "exclusive." If everybody could buy them, they would lose their psychological value and all you would be left with would be their material value, which likely amounts to a fraction of what you paid.

You may win $10 million, but that kind of change is no more than skin deep. You would simply continue to act out the same conditioned patterns in more luxurious surroundings. Humans have learned to split the atom. Instead of killing ten or twenty people with a wooden club, one person can now kill a million just by pushing a button. Is that real change?

On the way home that night he purchased a steam yacht, and built a million-dollar villa on the Black Sea.

Through this atmosphere of torrid splendor moved wan beings as richly upholstered as the furniture, beings without definite pursuits or permanent relations, who drifted on a languid tide of curiosity... Somewhere behind them, in the background of their lives there was doubtless a real past, yet they had no more real existence than the poet's shades in limbo.

Lily sank with a sigh into one of the shabby leather chairs. How delicious to have a place like this all to one's self! What a miserable thing it is to be a woman. She leaned back in a luxury of discontent.

Undine's white and gold bedroom, with sea-green panels and old rose carpet, looked along Seventy-second Street toward the leafless tree-tops of the Central Park. She went to the window, and drawing back its many layers of lace gazed eastward down the long brownstone perspective. Beyond the Park lay Fifth Avenue—and Fifth Avenue was where she wanted to be!

Then the house had been boldly planned with a ball-room, so that, instead of squeezing through a narrow passage to get to it (as at the Chiverses') one marched solemnly down a vista of enfiladed drawing-rooms (the sea-green, the crimson and the bouton d'or), seeing from afar the many-candled lustres reflected in the polished parquetry, and beyond that the depths of a conservatory where camellias and tree-ferns arched their costly foliage over seats of black and gold bamboo.

the only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

I am horribly poor—and very expensive.

Undine Spragg—how can you? her mother wailed, raising a prematurely-wrinkled hand heavy with rings to defend the note which a languid bell-boy had just brought in.

Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury; it was the background she required, the only climate she could breathe in.

Rich and idle and ornamental societies must produce many more such situations;

He was at heart a dilettante, and thinking over a pleasure to come often gave him a subtler satisfaction than its realisation.

the earth, the kind and equal mother of all ought not to be monopolised to foster the pride and luxury of any men