Quotes About Luxury

It's tragic what America has become because there is a great segment of society that now resents luxury and success and achievement by others.

Lucullus dines with Lucullus,' that is quite sufficient.

To mimic virtue is of every age; but the hypocrisy of luxury belongs more particularly to the ages of democracy.

The taste for luxury, the love of war, the sway of fashion, and the most superficial as well as the deepest passions of the human heart, co-operated

There was the taste of a strand of cool pearls in his mouth

Henry VIII owned more than eight hundred carpets

Guilt is a luxury reserved for those still breathing and with no unbearable pain, cold or hunger demanding all their fickle attention. Long as guilt's your biggest problem, girl..." Rikke saw the faint gleam of Isern's teeth in the gathering darkness. "Things can't be that bad".

Vengeance can feel fine, but it's a luxury. It doesn't fill your belly, or keep the rain off.

Guilt is a luxury reserved for those still breathing and with no unbearable pain, cold or hunger demanding all their fickle attention. Long as guilt's your big problem, girl…" Rikke saw the faint gleam of Isern's teeth in the gathering darkness. "Things can't be that bad.

If killing folk ever starts to right, you've a worse kind of problem. Guilt can sting, but you should be thankful for it.' 'Thankful?' 'Guilt is a luxury reserved for those still breathing and with no unbearable pain, cold or hunger demanding all their fickle attention. Long as guilt's your big problem, girl...things can't be that bad.

To weep was a kind of luxury; the dead felt no loss, wept for no one and nothing.

It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.

Italian style is a natural attitude. It is about a life of good taste. It doesn't have to be expensive. Simple but with good taste. Luxury is possible to buy. Good taste is not.

His life was one long extravaganza, like living inside a Faberge egg.

The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.

My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.

Life is too short to not have oysters and champagne sometimes

It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization.

Life is good, but Wine is better.

A glamorous life is quite different to a life of luxury. I don't need luxury. For years, I was practically broke but I was still very vain and glamorous. And I still am.

Maybe people [in Hollywood] wear really nice clothes, and they drive really nice cars, but that doesn't make me comfortable. And if I'm not comfortable, it won't be a part of my life.

Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease.