Quotes About Luxury

You can get all the pictures you want at fifty thousand dollars apiece – that's easy. But to get pictures at a quarter of a million apiece – that wants doing!

He is so rich, he has no room to shit.

where a man can live, there he can also live well. But he must live in a palace;- well then, he can also live well in a palace.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

The sitting room is subdued, symmetrical; it's one of the shapes money takes when it freezes. Money has trickled through this room for years and years, as if through an underground cavern, crusting and hardening like stalactites into these forms.

They were new money, without a doubt: so new it shrieked. Their clothes looked as it they'd covered themselves in glue, then rolled around in hundred-dollar bills.

The sitting room is subdued, symmetrical; it's one of the shapes money takes when it freezes.

Not giving a hoot would be a luxury. It describes the fine, irreverent carelessness I myself would like to cultivate, in these and other matters.

Nothing helps gluttony along so well as eating food you don't have to pay for yourself

We play two games. Larynx, I spell. Valance. Quince. Zygote. I hold the glossy counters with their smooth edges, finger the letters. The feeling is voluptuous. This is freedom, an eyeblink of it. Limp, I spell. Gorge. What a luxury. The counters are like candies, made of peppermint, cool like that. Humbugs, those were called. I would like to put them into my mouth. They would taste also of lime. The letter C. Crisp, slightly acid on the tongue, delicious. I

They buy 'em here 'cause it's cheaper. You know how rich people are. Money sticks to their hands, 'cause it's the most important thing in the world to 'em.

Oh - a diamond ring - and Rhett, do buy a great big one!

Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.

A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.

The Lexus LS 460 was designed to expand on the definition of the full-size luxury sedan as well as the level of innovative technology, especially as it relates to safety.

At Thanksgiving, I always start at the top of my list and say I'm grateful for friends, family, and good health. Then I get more superficial... like being thankful for my Louboutins.

True luxury is being able to own your time - to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation.

Luxury must have that over-the-top attitude but be effortless at the same time, that's what feels chic to me.

Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.

I won't go into a big spiel about reincarnation, but the first time I was in the Gucci store in Chicago was the closest I've ever felt to home.

I always go to the Cannes Film Festival and it's just such a glamorous time.

I think we're in a quiet time right now. luxury can be in the fit.

If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.

I wanted to create something that would live on forever, beyond my time, and out of that came Cashmere Mist.