Lewis Hamilton Quotes

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

The love of Luxury grows by what it feeds upon.

My life screams out and says one thing: 'indulgence.' I am a person who would never deny myself anything.

Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don't care about other stuff.

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

I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.

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.

I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It 's nothing new - I used to spend down to the last dime.

The public's got it right, a lot of NBA stars are arrogant and like to spend lots of money and have lots of girlfriends and all that.

To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way.

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.

I'm certainly no bohemian hippie, and I do love luxury.

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

You just get pickier. I think that's true of everything. Money, toys, girls - all the hedonistic stuff. You just raise the bar.

I love a good party - but I'm not all that attracted to a celebrity lifestyle.

I spent most of my dough on booze, broads and boats and the rest I wasted.

I was afraid of staying at the Playboy Mansion; I wanted to get a footing before I ventured into a world of hedonism.

When we started off, we wanted the girls, the cocaine, the fur coats. It wasn't like it was an act; it was almost like working-class people winning the pools. We went bananas.

I sacrifice to no god save myself - And to my belly, greatest of deities.

In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were not much more difficult to satisfy than those of the brute. Hence luxury in all its forms; delicate food, the use of tobacco and opium, spirituous liquors, fine clothes, and the thousand and one things that he considers necessary to his existence.

To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much as sensual pleasure as possible into one's mouth more or less continuously. Gratification, instant and lavish, is a birthright

I stole every nickel and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, and other sensual goodies. I partied in every capital in Europe and basked on all the world's most famous beaches.

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.