Quotes About Luxury

There is simply no defending the preferred mode of travel for many of the celebrity crazies who lecture us about carbon credits. Do you think these folks are willing to give up their mansions and private jets in order to 'save the planet?'

As a journalist, I cannot help imagining with excitement a new era with a face-off between Hedi Slimane at YSL and Raf Simons at Dior - a magnificent battle of style and wills to echo the Armani/Versace, Gucci/Prada or even Chanel/Schiaparelli face-offs of earlier years. But I remind myself that this is not a game of chess.

I'm a fiend for costume jewellery and have countless pairs of rhinestone or diamante earrings, which are so flattering when they catch the light. I love the designers Alexis Bittar and Kenneth Jay Lane, and I always go to jewellers Butler & Wilson.

Cadillacs have been used by every president since Woodrow Wilson.

I want to have lots of bodyguards around me and be surrounded by beautiful women while watching my brother play at Wimbledon.

My mother always used to say when picking up a product, 'Would you give this to the Duchess of Windsor?' Well, that's lovely. But the Duchess of Windsor is dead.

Luxury is anything you don't need, right? I mean, you need food, water, clothing, shelter... but good wine, good food, beautiful interiors, nice clothes; those aren't necessities, they are luxuries - it's all luxury.

Food and wine are my extravagances.

Am I an elitist because I like wine?

Wine is smart, sexy, and classy.

Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira.

Wine is connected to abundance.

If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.

The Asian airlines have the best wine programs.

Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.

Silver and ermine and red faces full of port wine.

There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.

I could probably die happy with a cheeseboard and a glass of French red wine - that's my idea of a perfect dinner.

Now the restaurants have begun to catch up with the wine-making; there are numerous great restaurants in Napa Valley, and it's wonderful because the people are there for just that: great food and great wine.

A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up.

Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.

Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.

It means I wake up to sunshine every morning, and I can afford to drink better wine at night. But I haven't completely sold out to Hollywood.

I've always liked sparkling wine. Rose, too.