Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Quotes

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

…luxury is the result of wealth, or it makes wealth necessary. It corrupts both rich and poor, the one by possessing, the other by coveting. It sells out the fatherland to indolence and vanity; it deprives the State of all its Citizens by enslaving some of them to others and all of them to opinion.

In the affluent society no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessaries.

The love of Luxury grows by what it feeds upon.

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

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

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

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

I try to wear $1 million a day. At least.

Luxury is anything you don't need, right? I mean, you need food, water, clothing, shelter... but good wine, good food, beautiful interiors, nice clothes; those aren't necessities, they are luxuries - it's all luxury.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

The more money the louder it talks.

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

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

one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

I don't understand this pathetic need for luxuries.

Many people have beautiful homes and beautiful things, but other people haven't ever seen them. So why have them?

Opulence doesn't cost more than boring.

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

With much we surfeit; plenty makes us poor.

O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!

There is a certain sort of excess that is interesting, don't you think? And America is, of course, the most excessive place.

I had the notion that, OK, so now we have all of this wealth, we could buy not only one expensive car, we could buy all of them. As soon as you realize that you could buy all of them, then none of them are particularly interesting or satisfying.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.