Catherine Malandrino Quotes

People are often reproached because their desires are directed mainly to money and they are fonder of it than of anything else. Yet it is natural and even inevitable …. every other blessing can satisfy only one desire and one need; for instance, food is good only to the hungry, wine only for the healthy, medicine for the sick, a fur coat for winter, women for youth, and so on... Money alone is the absolutely good thing because it meets not merely one need in concreto, but needs generally in abstracto.

Luxury is a difficult object to describe - it's been the object of hundreds of years of discussion. We definitely don't need it, but it's good for the soul.

Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.

We're all looking for those moments - a relief. That's why people go out and treat themselves.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient.

I'm addicted to laughing. I go to see a lot of comedy shows. I'm addicted to playing really loud and obnoxious rock music in my car. I'm addicted to beautiful clothes and shoes. I just love gorgeous stuff and work hard to acquire pretty things, shiny things. I'm addicted to shiny things!

Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene, the practicalities are in trouble, as women who wear expensive stiletto heels can testify.

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

My son doesn't know how flawed I am, how flawed we are. He still likes us so much, and that's so incredible to be around.

A bath and a tenderloin steak. Those are the high points of a man's life.

There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it up from there really until you finally go Gucci shoes or whatever it is or whatever your consumer desires are. All those desires are ultimately, they're about gratification.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

I don't think you should feel guilty about pleasure. Defeats the purpose.

Every man makes a god of his own desire.

I'm a sensualist. My two main indulgences are dark chocolate and massages.

For me, true luxury can be caviar or a day with no meetings, no appointments and no schedule.

'Stress' was the catch-all every pamper-pedlar I spoke to used to explain why healthy women feel the need to be regularly patted, petted and preened into a state of babyish beatification.

Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.

Sometimes America gets tempted by the glitz and glamour.

Baths are my favorite thing. I can have two, three a day.

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