Quotes About Luxury

I know I have to be like people expect, because people love to dream with me, they like to think that I love my boat of 50 metres, that I drink Cristal for breakfast, that I dance until five o'clock in the morning. I am not like that.

The polished oak floors reflected the light of the overhead crystal chandelier and gleaned under the plush deep red Persian rug.

As for children, every woman knows the fears and sorrows. Joy is a delicious luxury that we experience most cautiously, for tragedy conceals itself around every corner.

Joy is a delicious luxury that we experience most cautiously, for tragedy conceals itself around every corner.

My kingdom for a flush toilet.

Cricket felt that her spiritual home might be Neiman Marcus. She was far from the kind of place that made her feel comfortable—someplace gleaming and clean with lovely, expensive goods for sale. People were so into "nature," weren't they? Getting into it, back to it. Why? Nature just seemed spooky and unsafe to Cricket. There was that whole no-one-can-hear-you-screaming vibe. They hadn't seen another car for ages. Ages.

Never slam a car door. According to the Westchester elite, it's a heinous crime, as heartless as kicking a puppy.

Blame was a luxury they could no longer afford.

Which was why Skye was in a recliner that went hot and cold more often than Blair and Nate.

The freedom to choose where to spend those hours had always seemed a wonderful luxury to Jonas; other hours of the day were so carefully regulated.

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.

Food court at the mall, 11:30 tomorrow. Order something expensive.

And I can get my own phone, said Leslie, with unlimited text messaging! And I can get my car fixed, I said. Or maybe even a new car. Or a new house that already has a swimming pool, said Leslie. And a hot tub, I said. And a game room, and a pool table, said Leslie. And a giant TV with surround sound, and every kind of video game. And, and, and... That's the trouble with money.

The dream of filling home with comforts, giving Beth everything she wanted, from strawberries in winter to an organ in her bedroom, going abroad herself, and always having more than enough, so that she might indulge in the luxury of charity, had been for years Jo's most cherished castle in the air.

As she said, she was 'fond of luxury', and her chief trouble was poverty.

As she said, she was "fond of luxury," and her chief trouble was poverty.

It seemed unfortunate that they were led into such lavish style.

I did not feel I could afford such luxuries, and am grateful for a son who is able to buy them for me.

The Corsair was a therapeutic, if expensive, toy for Pierpont.

Though he rejected champagne as too expensive in his last days

He spent winters at the Villa Henriette in Monte Carlo, which had a beautiful view of the Mediterranean.

An aerial view of John D.'s golf hideaway in Lakewood, New Jersey.

Golf was his greatest indulgence.

It makes one's hand look so bourgeoise.