Quotes about Luxury

Wine, one of the noblest cordials in nature.

To spend several days in a friend's house and hunger for something to read, while you are treading on costly carpets, and sitting upon luxurious chairs and sleeping upon down, is as if one were bribing your body for the sake of cheating your mind

Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Sirach calls the people who dwelt at Shechem a foolish people (Ecclus. 50:26), just as the Germans are accustomed to judge concerning the Swabians and the Bavarians. They were a proud people given to luxury.

Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

Our affluence does not make us selfish; it simply enables us to afford more sophisticated expressions of selfishness.

Asher’s food will be rich; he shall provide royal delicacies.

Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell,

O daughters of Israel, weep for Saul, who clothed you in scarlet and luxury, who decked your garments with ornaments of gold.