Quotes About Luxury

It's a luxury to slough the dust of the road off your skin, to soap up and stand beneath a spray of warm water, to watch it pool at your feet, grimy and brown, before it circles the drain and disappears forever.

Jane circled the mansion, passing door after door, all too la-di-da for comfort.

Dane liked luxury weapons, and taxidermy, in that order, and displayed all three in her spacious underground bedchamber. She liked women too, but she yelled for her wives to fly elsewhere the minute she entered with Cent in her hand.

Solitude is a luxury for the lucky. For people who don't have sick cats and lost ladybugs and very possibly dying loved ones to worry about. For people who don't have to worry about getting their hands dirty with the everyday goo of ordinary suffering.

Those shining stars, he liked to point out, were one of the special treats for people like us who lived out in the wilderness. Rich city folks, he'd say, lived in fancy apartments, but their air was so polluted they couldn't even see the stars. We'd have to be out of our minds to want to trade places with any of them.

After the presentations, we had to fill out these questionnaires. The first question was, 'Where do you see yourself in fifteen years?' I know EXACTLY where I will be in fifteen years: in my pool, at my mansion, counting my money. But there weren't any check boxes for THAT option.

Are these real diamonds? I once asked, and she said, Why have them if they're not?

I never saw the point in going out to fancy restaurants. It's not that I don't appreciate good food; I love good food. But why go to all this trouble? Why put on fancy clothes to eat? I

I loved the flash of jewels and the luster of satin. In those days women dressed.

Never buy inexpensive or poorly made gloves," Edna instructed us. "That's not the place to save your money. Whenever you are faced with the prospect of purchasing gloves, you must ask yourself if you would be bereft to lose one of them in the back of a taxicab. If not, then don't buy them. You should only buy gloves so beautiful that to lose one of them would break your heart.

Then he dived back into the storage compartment and came back up with a hamper containing a small bottle of milk for the tea, a basket of peeled hard-boiled eggs, ham sliced so thin it was nearly transparent, crumbling sharp cheese, crusty bread, a cold raspberry tart, and several crisp apples, all served on China plates.

Here I am, in a lovely hotel room, with my own bathroom. I have never experienced such incredible luxury.

After all, I told myself, anyone willing and able to pay seven hundred dollars a pop to stay overnight could walk through the Ritz's imposing place Vendôme entrance. But only those carrying an employee's identification card were allowed through the back door on rue Cambon.

She had been privileged and protected like a pig in a diamond-encrusted pigsty lined with red velvet cushions.

Once you've used soap you made by hand with contemporary techniques, there is no going back to store-bought.

My favorite thing in the world is a box of fine European chocolates which is, for sure, better than sex.

In vogue and cosmopolitan they clutch their Pomeranians and walk among the millionaires or watch from swayback steamer chairs

Wasted energy is simply a luxury that few people with MS can afford.

We don't have to do this. Just say the word and I can have a jet here in an hour. We can go anywhere

Macey shrugged. "I have a jet," she said, because I guess "free jet" is an asset that should never be undervalued. "Guys, that's awesome, but I can't go to Rome. You know that right?" "But..." Macey started, then trailed off, pointed at her name. "Jet.

Money comes and goes, darling. Tiaras are forever. So are titles." Gabrielle

I believe it has an entire staff of seamstresses and tailors. We can have anything altered—anything at all. It's really no—

After all, there are worse things than spending the end of February on a private yacht in the middle of the Mediterranean with friends and family

Esto es una ratonera. Cómoda, soleada, con vistas al mar, eso sí, pero una ratonera, quizás la mejor, y precisamente por eso, una de las peores.