Bryan Q. Miller Quotes

I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf, velvets and mirrors, Oriental rugs and marble.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.

Luxury is a state of mind.

I love the finer things.

The Ritz in London has an old-fashioned charm, with waiters wearing tails and white gloves. The dining room is exquisite, with immaculate service and ornate details.

Plush velvet conjures up kings and opulence.

Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.

Swanky means classy and funky.

Luxury and style have been key elements in all my projects.

I like to be surrounded by splendid things.

I think the time is ripe for a return to the refinement of lifestyle that the pocket watch embodies. A personal pleasure that you know you have in your pocket, which requires an elegant gesture to use and show to others.

Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.

But a dandy can never be a vulgar man.

I love to do glamorous things, like wear Valentino.

I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.

When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings.

Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.

The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.

I am from the planet of elegance.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

I represent luxury, and that's what I love.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public spaces with enormous amounts of display and marble and so on. They were havens off the street.

I am committed to glamour.