Quotes About Luxury

Men da tokayeren stod næsten urørt i glassene fik fru Julie champagne og frukt ind, druer, epler, fikener. Nei du store verden! Tænkte vel alle, og verten kunde endelig merke en snev av himelfaldenhet.

Not even going to discuss this. I'm going to stay in my gold house and sleep on my gold bed and ski down my piles of gold like Scrooge McDuck.

Two weeks ago I didn't know what it felt like . . . to be pressed against a wall, to be propped up on a desk, to be made love to on the floor of the Venetian.

I ate a great quantity of turbot, some boiled mutton and a few nicely-dressed woodcocks, each set upon a toast which had been spread with the bird's "trails", peppered. "Trails" means guts. I also drank some wine.

It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.

Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.

My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.

Will a day come when our cars have carbon-fiber tubs, 18,000-rpm V-10 engines, and ground-effects tunnels? Perhaps, about the same time we have condos on the moon.

I had only wanted to stay invisible, but there as elsewhere invisibility is a luxury.

To the courtiers flushed with wine, life was pleasure, and pleasure life.

The odd thing is that only lonely people have a tendency to festoon their abodes with extravagant items.

Today, a single affluent family generally has more timepieces at home than an entire medieval country.

One of history's few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations. Once people get used to a certain luxury, they take it for granted. Then they begin to count on it. Finally they reach a point where they can't live without it.

Una de las pocas leyes rigurosas de la historia es que los lujos tienden a convertirse en necesidades y a generar nuevas obligaciones.

Chemists discovered aluminium only in the 1820s, but separating the metal from its ore was extremely difficult and costly. For decades, aluminium was much more expensive than gold. In the 1860s, Emperor Napoleon III of France commissioned aluminium cutlery to be laid out for his most distinguished guests. Less important visitors had to make do with the gold knives and forks.

Uma das poucas leis férreas da história é que os luxos tendem a se tornar necessidades e a gerar novas obrigações. Uma vez que as pessoas se acostumam a um certo luxo, elas o dão como garantido.

The story of the luxury trap carries with it an important lesson. Humanity's search for an easier life released immense forces of change that transformed the world in ways nobody envisioned or wanted.

We had a bar chef. We made our own bitters. I treated the bar like I treated the restaurant, like [bartender Albert Trummer] is the chef here. He'd light the bar on fire; back then no one would give a shit. It was exciting because of what we did and the vibe. The design was nice but it was the people, the food and talent. It was a hotel restaurant and we made it really special.

Being close to him with her face in the space between his ear and his stiff army collar was like being initiated into the subterranean reserves of a fine fabric store exuding the delicacy of cambrics and linen and luxury bound in bales.

The problem with people nowadays is that a 'necessity' is any luxury your neighbor happens to have.

Belief in mysteries, any manner of mysteries, is the only lasting luxury in life.

Belief in mysteries—all manner of mysteries—is the only lasting luxury in life.

Mac's heart thumped against her gold, initaled locked. In fact fact, her heart hadn't beated that quickly since she was thirty seconds away from being the top bidder for vintage YSL lace-up heels on eBay. This was a coup.

You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented.