Shirley Jackson Quotes

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

I like to be surrounded by splendid things.

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

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

Luxury and Extravagance are in my opinion totally destructive to those virtues which are necessary for the Preservation of the Liberty and Happiness of the People.

My mom wears a lot of gold.

My life is extravagant.

If you come to my house in Kolkata, it is full of gold and platinum discs.

It's so nice to slip into the lap of luxury.

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies, and all the things that can be compared unto her.

More is more and less is a bore.

Didn't love, like a plant from India, require a prepared soil, a particular temperature? Sighs in the moonlight, long embraces, tears flowing over hands yielded to a lover, all the fevers of the flesh and the languors of tenderness thus could not be separated from the balconies of great châteaux filled with idle amusements, a boudoir with silk blinds, a good thick carpet, full of pots of flowers, and a bed raised on a dais, nor from the sparkle of precious stones and shoulder knots on servants' livery.

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

Once I was coming down a street in Beverly Hills and I saw a Cadillac about a block long, and out of the side window was a wonderfully slinky mink, and an arm, and at the end of the arm a hand in a white suede glove wrinkled around the wrist, and in the hand was a bagel with a bite out of it.

It was just the sort of yatch you'd expect a rock promoter to have. Mirrored ceilings, marble, Jacuzzis and leopard-skin everything, it made the merely vulgar seem commonplace.

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.

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess

The dullest man in the world is charming beyond belief when he's pouring gold coins from one hand to the other.

We were ensconced as guests of the exclusive Beverly Hilton Hotel, an edifice so swank that the fire ax in the hall outside our suite said: "In case of fire-break crystal."

People say I'm a gold digger, but do you see me wearing gold? No. I'm wearing diamonds.

[The Goths'] poverty was incurable; since the most liberal donatives were soon dissipated in wasteful luxury, and the most fertile estates became barren in their hands.

I didn't go around the world, I went around the world on a private jet. I didn't have a hotel room, we had an entire floor. We were spoiled.

The Earth turns to Gold, in the hands of the wise.

It feels almost soft, like something to be caressed. Only gold feels that way.