David Hume Quotes

Luxury and Ostentation usually make me feel antsy, like I'm going to get a case of gout.

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

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.

People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

I spend my money on holidays and eating out, and it allows me to be generous.

Opulence doesn't cost more than boring.

When people say to me less is more I reply, 'More is more'.

What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?

The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.

I've always hated it when people overspend, are spoilt or throw their money away.

I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers.

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.

Space tourism is God's way of telling you you aren't spending enough on lap dances, baccarat and cocaine.

The first year I had money, I really went shopping. I got really caught up in it. I bought all my brothers sets of luggage, and I bought 'em winter coats from Giorgio Armani - winter coats. And I got a pair of socks from this brother.

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

Gansey leaned back, head thrown to the side, drunken and silly with happiness. "I love this car," he said, loud enough to be heard over the engine. "I should buy four more of them. I'll just open the door of one to fall in to the other. One can be a living room, one can be my kitchen, I'll sleep in one..." "And the fourth? Butler's pantry?" Blue shouted. "Don't be so selfish. Guest room.

Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow.

It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.

An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.

Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.

I'm not careful with my money at all these days. I buy people a lot of dinners!

Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.

I love when people walk into my house and start grinning: "This is too much - this is so you!" Why give people brown cardboard when you can give them embroidered, crystal-flecked organza?

The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.