Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.

I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

I'm not a girl who's into home comforts and luxury.

I'm O.K. having a comfortable life. I don't have to live in a mansion and drive Aston Martins or Ferraris.

What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing caloric intake above any conceivable nutritional requirement.

The best thing about being rich is the freedom; freedom to do whatever you want whenever you want. It doesn't suck.

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.

I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs.

For me, life is not about gold taps and marble all over the place.

I've lived very well all my life, even when I had no money, and there's very little I can't afford.

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

Advances don't fundamentally interest me. It sounds terribly naive, but money doesn't really mean anything to me. If a lot of money came my way, I'm certainly not going to say no. But it hasn't come my way as yet, and I'm not heartbroken.

Money and good life had never been my goal.

I always have the best of everything.

As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.

Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.

I've never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have you.

I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.

The older I get, the less I need. I wear the same jean shorts for the whole week. I'm not running to the store to get the latest bag.

I saw such personal wealth there that were I to describe it, the people of Persia would never believe it. I could discover no end or limit to their wealth, and I never saw such ease and comfort anywhere

I don't have a glamorous lifestyle.

We don't need an abundance of things.