Quotes About Luxury

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don't have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don't know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don't know how much I pay in taxes.

When I go see a basketball game, I'm always in the front row. I always have a table at a restaurant; I never have trouble getting a taxi.

I have no limo. In cities, I usually hail a taxi like everyone else.

Forget the stress of trying to find a taxi while you freeze. Ubers make you feel like you have a personal driver... a luxury!

I want to add 'record mogul' to my list of accomplishments and make a disgusting amount of money so I can buy a house between Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus.

I love driving at Monaco but the rest of it, well, I can absolutely take it or leave it. It's extremely pretentious and really not my cup of tea.

If me and my friends are feeling decadent, we go for afternoon tea.

Go to the Savoy for a classic British tea and to see what a $350 million renovation can do for a hotel.

If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.

I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.

After I was done, I sighed and leaned back, feeling decadent and spent. Pure bliss. Books were a lot less messy than orgasms.

With Dimitri grinning, Rose complied, holding out her left hand for the rest of the table to see. It was a remarkable piece of work. A large, perfectly cut round diamond was set into a lacy square of platinum filigree that was edged in tiny blue opals. It was a statement ring if ever there was one, and a wholly unexpected choice.

My country," Prince Bernhard observed, "can never again afford the luxury of another Montgomery success.

Venetian Pear.

Screw it. I'll be in my Mansion soon.

The customers, mostly well-to-do vacationers with little knowledge of turquoise, were using a standard principle—a stereotype—to guide their buying: "expensive = good.

stubborn consistency allows us a very appealing luxury: We don't have to think hard about the issues anymore.

higher price typically reflects higher quality.

Os clientes, em sua maioria turistas endinheirados com poucos conhecimentos sobre a pedra turquesa, estavam usando um princípio padrão – um estereótipo – para orientar suas compras: caro é igual a bom.

There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.

Go fetch to me a pint o wine, an fill it in a silver tassie.

BATHS WERE NOT a luxury. Baths were the foundation of civilisation. Baths were what raised even the meanest citizen of Rome above the level of the wealthiest hairy-arsed barbarian. Baths instilled the triple disciplines of cleanliness, healthfulness and strict routine.

An important distinction is that rich people buy luxuries last, while the poor and middle class tend to buy luxuries first.

overstuffed, out-of-period wingbacks and a matching couch sat before a walk-in fireplace;