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Quotes About Luxurious

Rich, chocolaty goodness
~ Thomas Pynchon
Material made of spirit is the luxurious border where reality communicates with utopia.
~ César Aira
I say she was a lady because a lady is a fancier kind of woman, and the dress was as fancy as you could imagine, long and luxurious and the liveliest yellow with black bits on the edges. It wasn't a dress you could have done anything useful in. It was a dress made to get in the way. It was, however, a very good dress for lounging in and looking at people. And her eyes were doing a very intense job of looking.
~ C.A. Fletcher
Another challenge? Getting up at 6:30 in the morning to go act. It's not fun acting that early in the morning or acting at 4 A.M in the middle of the night or in the morning when you're really tired. That's a challenge. What a luxurious problem to have.
~ George Eads
male vanity goes deeper and is costlier. Look at their military uniforms and medals, the pomp and solemnity with which they show off, the extreme measures they employ to impress women and make other men envious; their luxurious toys, like cars, and their toys of supremacy, like weapons.
~ Isabel Allende
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
~ Juvenal
well-worn Victorian settee covered in burgundy sateen
~ Susan Kandel
I don't think the Playboy brand has changed much at all - it's always been sophisticated and aspirational.
~ Christie Hefner
I do really modern with materials that are so luxurious that they're, like, baroque.
~ Peter Marino
The Athenians were the first to lay aside their weapons, and to adopt an easier and more luxurious mode of life;
~ Thucydides
of us were moved by the deep morality and sincere humanity on the part of the aliens. These were people who simply could not imagine doing any evil to anyone, people who liked eating well, drinking, even smoking, who enjoyed playing the violin [in one case] and tennis, and driving luxurious cars and executive airplanes (in the 1970s, when very few people in Italy could own a personal plane).…
~ Timothy Good
April. Spring was on the land like an itch. The whole countryside seemed to be scratching itself awake—lazily, luxuriously, though occasionally scratching so hard its nails hit bone, that old cold calcium that lies beneath our tingles.
~ Tom Robbins
If I did I didn't know it. What's it like, velvet?' 'Well, Lu, velvet is like the world was just born. Clean and new and so smooth.
~ Toni Morrison
Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation.
~ Hosea Ballou
His voice sounded like the rich taste of chocolate on your tongue.
~ Tamera Alexander
I have had the most spoiled golfing life.
~ Ronnie Corbett
One of the prime dangers of civilization has always been its tendency to cause the loss of virile fighting virtues, of the fighting edge. When men get too comfortable and lead too luxurious lives, there is always a danger lest the softness eat like an acid into their manliness of fiber. The
~ Theodore Roosevelt
We're creating a brand image which didn't exist in the beginning, and I want to grow that. And in the way that the clothes and services we offer are a luxurious niche, I want to be doing that with accessories.
~ Emilia Wickstead
Something for the high-class restaurants to feature, charge ten bucks a plate for.
~ Clifford D. Simak
enough. She had in mind at the moment, rich
~ Virginia Woolf
Today, the world is so awash in sugar - it is such a staple of the modern diet, associated with all that is cheap and unhealthy - that it's hard to believe things were once exactly the opposite. The West Indies were colonized in a world where sugar was seen as a scarce, luxurious, and profoundly health-giving substance.
~ Tom Reiss
Far better was our homely diet, eaten in peace and liberty, than the luxurious dainties, the love of which hath delivered us as bondsmen to the foreign conqueror!
~ Walter Scott
One more thing is of vital importance; children must have books, living books; the best are not too good for them; anything less than the best is not good enough; and if it is needful to exercise economy, let go everything that belongs to soft and luxurious living before letting go the duty of supplying the books, and the frequent changes of books, which are necessary for the constant stimulation of the child's intellectual life.
~ Charlotte Mason
I was pressed for time, so all I was able to whip up was deviled eggs with a dollop of Tsar Nicoulai caviar on top, a selection of fruit and artisanal cheeses, and sauteed Dover sole with lemon and capers. Kate's idea of preparing a quick meal was eating Cap'n Crunch out of the box, so this was Christmas dinner by comparison.
~ Janet Evanovich