Quotes About Luxury

Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

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

Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury

I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.

Some people think happiness is a luxury, but its a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life.

Pink champagne -- that's the kind of life we've both been used to. It might be a little difficult to -- do you like beer?

This is a great shame, but of course there have to be some things in life that not everybody can have, and great perfume is one of them.

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

Therapy is expensive, and often the best facilities and practitioners are not covered by insurance, and so mental health becomes a luxury.

Cheap jewelry, however, is worse than no jewelry at all, and there are very few things in life than are worse than no jewelry at all.

Cheap jewelry, however, is worse than no jewelry at all, and there are very few things in life that are worse than no jewelry at all.

Gold nugget jewelry is bad.

I love this mansion, though it is too many windows ...to open halfway each morning ...to close halfway each night.

I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay.

Was it all worth it? The King might have said that without his extravagant spending, the luxurious experiences for which his country is still celebrated would not have come into existence. The businessman might have added that without it, tourism would not be France's number-one industry today.

As she traveled down the lane between the rows of parked cars, she noticed a conspicuous absence of new or expensive vehicles. Teaching didn't pay well enough for any luxuries, and Hannah thought that was a shame. There was something really wrong with  the system when a teacher could make more money flipping burgers at a fast-food chain.

Guilt is a luxury reserved for those still breathing and with no unbearable pain, cold or hunger demanding all their fickle attention.

You're considerate and funny and you're a lover out of my dreams. Should I develop a taste for luxuries- which I may well do after this week- you're so plump in the pocket, you wouldn't notice if I started buying gold-plated underthings." His smile was uncertain, nonetheless it was a smile. Her churning misery eased a fraction. "I'd notice anything you did with your undergarments, amore mio.

Matthew emerged from sleep slowly, luxuriously. It must be nearly noon. He swam up from the depths of a calm warm sea. The glittering sea of the far south that he'd read about. A blue sea under a glorious sun. A sea full of pearls and exotic creatures and soft silky water. And mermaids. Indubitably there were mermaids in this sea. His particular mermaid slept naked in his arms. When he was inside her, she undulated in endless waves like a sea of pleasure.

They were served asparagus in a mousseline sauce so delicious you could faint, then the Easter pâté à la Paulette Lestafier, then a roasted carré d'agneau accompanied by tians of tomatoes, and zucchini with thyme flowers, then a tart of strawberries and wild strawberries with homemade whipped cream.

Friend of the Gatsbys . . .

I would not be understood to inveigh against wealth, or against the enjoyments of it; they are real enjoyments, and allied to many elegancies in manners and in taste ; — I only wish to prevent unprofitable pains and inconsistent expectations.