Quotes about Luxury

If you would rise, shun luxury, for luxury lowers and degrades.

No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.

A women needs ropes and ropes of pearls.

The curse of every ancient civilization was that its men in the end became unable to fight. Materialism, luxury, safety, even sometimes an almost modern sentimentality, weakened the fibre of each civilized race in turn; each became in the end a nation of pacifists, and then each was trodden under foot by some ruder people that had kept that virile fighting power the lack of which makes all other virtues useless and sometimes even harmful.

There's not a Hand in this town, sir, man, woman, or child, but has one ultimate object in life. That object is, to be fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon. Now, they're not a-going—none of 'em—ever to be fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon.

A good cut of steak is always a go-to splurge.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices.

beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich

One could never pay too high a price for any sensation.