Charles Stuart Calverley Quotes

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.

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.

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

None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.

Comfort is very important to me. I think people live better in big houses and in big clothes.

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.

I've got a great family and a beautiful house. I feel very lucky as far as my lifestyle is concerned. I'm not really interested in fame and all its trappings.

Money and good life had never been my goal.

I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave.

I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.

Because I grew up in such tight spaces, I don't get manicures, pedicures. I'm not into cars, but I am into a fabulous house. I wanted the spiral staircase, clean sheets on the bed, to be able to take a shower.

I'd rather have a house that's nice but usable.

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.

I tell myself every day I love my Jacuzzi, I love my marble floors, I love my high ceilings.

I'm O.K. having a comfortable life. I don't have to live in a mansion and drive Aston Martins or Ferraris.

It's a little weird: you're headlining a show on TV, and obviously, people like to associate that with material things. I drive a - what is it - 1999 Chevy Blazer. There's no more cushion on the driver's seat, and the tires are about gone.

Love and a cottage! Eh, Fanny! Ah, give me indifference and a coach and six!

Our age is very cheap and intelligible. Unroof any house, and you shall find it. The well-being consists in having a sufficiency of coffee and toast, with a daily newspaper; a well glazed parlor, with marbles, mirrors and centre-table; and the excitement of a few parties and a few rides in a year.

Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.

I don't need a Rolls-Royce, I don't need a house in the country, I don't need to live in the south of France. I'm quite happy as I am.

Ah, lady! it is hardly what you thought it, This life of luxury and social power; You gave yourself as principal, and bought it, But God extracts the interest hour by hour.

I don't have to have the biggest house or the biggest car or the longest mink, but quality of life is really glamorous.

I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.

Money talks, but it don't sing and dance, and it don't walk. And long as I can have you here with me, I'd much rather be, forever in blue jeans.