Thomas De Quincey Quotes

People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

Money and good life had never been my goal.

The key to my collections is sensuality.

I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.

Tasteful rather than expensive.

simplicity is the key of elegance

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside; or a grimy palace amid the same with a regiment of housemaids always working to smear the dirt together so that it may be unnoticed; which, think you, is the most refined, the most fit for a gentleman of those two dwellings?

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.

Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.

I think elegance is always going to be there.

I am a very simple guy. Of course, popularity matters a lot, but for me, my health and family come first.

As long as everyone around me is comfortable and we have a roof over our heads and we're eating, then it's fine and I can go off and do whatever I want.

Living in London and having a lavish lifestyle, it's not that important to me.

There were times when we didn't have hot water or a phone line. But I guarantee you, we always had cable, and it was always on.

I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.

The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted to endure.

Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?

Although we sometimes did without a few of life's necessities, we rarely lacked for its luxuries.

... naturalness is not always consonant with taste.

A little beauty is preferable to much wealth.

The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.

I would say most of my style is driven by functionality and comfort.

Modesty is the highest elegance

Why pamper life's complexities when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?