Shaun White Quotes

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

We're premiering 'The Neon Demon' in Cannes, which is the representation of 'The Neon Demon,' which is all about glamour and vulgarity.

People don't want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.

But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less, And jewelry worth ten times more, I should guess, That she had not a thing in the wide world to wear!

It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once.

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

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

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.

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

Sometimes America gets tempted by the glitz and glamour.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

It might sound strange to describe New Yorkers as insecure when they delight so much in the cult of success. The display of wealth here, especially new wealth, is indeed wonderfully frank, from the super-long limousines which clog up the roads to the voluptuous fur coats that adorn both men and women.

I've never been impressed by somebody who came in with a crocodile bag, you know?

I was a millionaire twice over and half again before I was twenty-one. I stole every nickel of it and blew the bulk of the bundle on fine threads, gourmet foods, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, fine wheels, and other sensual goodies.

O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!

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

It's a lot of bling to play with. You got to have the bling.

Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the citizens of Antioch. The arts of luxury were honoured; the serious and manly virtues were the subject of ridicule; and the contempt for female modesty and reverent age announced the universal corruption of the capital of the East.

You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain; unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men.

All any girl needs, at any time in history, is simple velvet and basic diamonds.

Materialistic I'm narcissistic My shoe game is mean It's so sadistic

Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.

The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

When every blessed thing you have is made of silver, or of gold, you long for simple pewter.