Quotes About Luxury

Whenever his eyes happen to graze Mindy's, she senses shame on her behalf: because of her prettiness; because she sleeps with Lou; because she keeps telling herself this trip constitutes anthropological research into group dynamics and ethnographic enclaves, when really what she's after is luxury, adventure, and a break from her four insomniac roommates.

Rich people like to hostess, so they can show off their nice stuff. Tonight

If I had a nickel for every time I almost died, I would have been driving to school in a Ferrari and flying off to Bora-Bora on the weekends.

Before I liked cars, yachts, having a door to lock, and you. :)

Before, I liked cars, yachts, a door locked from the inside, and you. :)

as if it was perfectly reasonable to havea small bowling alley in one's house.

Sometimes I spend all day in my dressing gown. But if I do dress, I make myself ravishing because then, I feel ravishing.

There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel.

Sin became a luxury, a flower set in her hair, a diamond fastened on her brow.

Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilisation reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?

inlaid in Florentine mosaic, the very flower-stands placed in the recesses of the windows, oozed and sweated with gold. At the four corners of the room were four great lamps placed on pedestals of red marble, to which they were fastened by chains of bronze gilt, that fell with symmetrical grace. And from the ceiling hung three lustres with crystal pendants, streaming with drops of blue and pink light, whose hot glare drew a responding gleam from all the gold in the room.

The shelves had the melancholy emptiness and the false luxury of families where inferior meat is purchased, so as to be able to put flowers on the table.

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Love that Ritz!" he said. "A lot of folks swear by the Crescent Court, but it has nothing on the Ritz. Such a classic. And do you know that they have their own nightly guacamologist? How divine is that?

I think about pasta in the shape of Hello Kitty, stockings with diamond seams up the back, Marilyn's crumbling cake-mascara, and Liz Taylor's new white hair. I haven't got time for the trivials.

The question is the same, for it springs from the same ground: the human situation, the conditions of the human existence. The answer varies. The question can be answered by animal worship, by human scrifice or military conquest, by indulgence in luxury, by ascetic renunciation, by obsessionnal work, by artistic creation, by the love of God, and by the love of Man.

I have always found that it is far more convenient to be rich rather than to be poor.

I wasn't surprised to find myself in the back of Mr. Klein's store, wearing only my undershirt and panties, surrounded by sable.

Oh my boy, only men in bow ties and Andrew Christian underwear can bring me my mimosas.

Now go bring back someone's head on the front of your Lexus for Mommy, okay?" She batted her eyelashes and he grinned, showing all his teeth. "It'll fit with the bullet holes through the trunk," he told her.

People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

Nonsense!" his father explained in bad grace. "It's a pointless luxury. To own a yacht is like standing in the rain and ripping apart thousand dollar bills, someone once said.

People don't need yachts – they want yachts', in the words of a CEO of a top superyacht manufacturer.