Summer Phoenix Quotes

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

I'm fascinated by diamonds. When I put diamonds on, my hands start to shake.

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

The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.

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

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

I've been offered private planes, and I'm like, 'No!'

I don't care for jewellery and fancy clothes.

If you only use rich and luxurious ingredients, you end up with excess.

We very quickly forget about the wonderful things we've got. People lose their excitement because there's too much. Basically we're experiencing nothing, because everything is available to us.

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

I don't want to live my life in a five-star hotel. That's not real life to me. You can't appreciate it.

I like to be surrounded by splendid things.

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.

My love can be easily bought with a steak from Peter Luger's.

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.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.

I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.

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

I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.

I work with gold that holds history, diamonds that see the future, and rubies that long for love.

I have a life that I enjoy; I try and value the things that I think are worth valuing and everything else is icing. You know, it is a kick to go down the red carpet in that dress and then you go back home.

Big girls need big diamonds.