Benjamin Franklin Quotes

I am not trying to say that I am poor and that I don't like beautiful things. But I don't like luxury for luxury sake or in the sense of showing off luxury.

We don't need fashion to survive, we just desire it so much.

Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

Fashion isn't me, even though I work in it. It's just materialistic stuff.

We spend money we don't have, on things we don't need, to make impressions that don't matter.

We use fashion for status and to beautify and there's nothing wrong with that, but when it becomes completely unbalanced, then you're living a decadent life. And when that happens on a global scale, you're living in a decadent world.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

Sometimes America gets tempted by the glitz and glamour.

The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps.

But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.

We judge of entire nations by the productions of a few mechanical arts, and think we are talking of men, while we are boasting of their estates, their dress, and their palaces. The sense in which we apply the terms, great, and noble, high rank, and high life, show, that we have, on such occasions, transferred the idea of perfection from the character to the equipage; and that excellence itself is, in our esteem, a mere pageant, adorned at a great expense, by the labors of many workmen.

People like their handbag more than their sofa, and I hate it.

I am a shopaholic, like to wear make-up, and believe in vanity.

There's a lot of music nowadays with people singing about how amazing their clothes are and how incredible their shoes are and how much jewelry they might be wearing or how much jewelry they want, how much money they have and the club that they're in and the alcohol that they're drinking. I think that's showing off. I don't think it's necessarily all that honest or all that interesting.

Much of the pressure contemporary parents feel with respect to dressing children in designer clothes, teaching young children academics, and giving them instruction in sports derives directly from our need to use our children to impress others with our economic surplus. We find "good" rather than real reasons for letting our children go along with the crowd.

[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.

In L.A., like, there's a lot of, like, materialism, and, you know, people who think they're better than each other because of the clothes they wear or how they dress, and in Oakland, it's not like that.

It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.

Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.

It's no secret that in our society, and many before, people are trend followers. For some reason, they feel better about themselves if they are dressed in the latest fashion or have the newest tech gadget.

I didn't come to Hollywood to get on magazine covers or start my Porsche collection or to enjoy that kind of lifestyle, to go to the right parties and meet the right people.

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.

Hollywood is so fake and people need to realize that people are just people, and you, too, don't need to be born into something or have money or have whatever product someone is hawking on you.