Plutarch Quotes

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

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

Unfortunately, some people go to a restaurant, and they aren't really there to enjoy themselves. They're there because they think they deserve to be there or because they can just afford it.

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

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

The super-rich watch each other like envious owls, to see who's got a slightly better loafer, a pullover made from some even more absurdly endangered fur. They will go to any lengths to find the best tailors.

Davos is an extravagant bun-fight of the vanities, where the 'haves' gather to strike deals with the 'have-mores.'

All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!

Luxury starts where functionality ends and where the true value is personal and so has no price or reason.

The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.

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

The very rich only admire themselves

Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.

Luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you and prevents you from knowing the world.

You don't put bumper stickers on a Bentley.

A Halloween-haired, Sachsgate-enacting, estuary-whining, glitter-lacquered, priapic berk How dare I, from my velvet chaise longue, in my Hollywood home like Kubla Khan, drag my limbs from my harem to moan about the system? A system that has posited me on a lilo made of thighs in an ocean filled with honey and foie gras'd my Essex arse with undue praise and money.

I don't encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!

People need to understand. If they go to a show on Broadway and find seventy people working but only fifty spectators, how much would the ticket cost? That's what El Bulli's about. There are seventy actors who are playing for just fifty spectators. Is the price expensive? It's relative. How much does a normal dinner at a five-star hotel restaurant cost? Four hundred dollars. It's the same as El Bulli. But you can also think of it this way: How much would it cost to eat something that nobody else is eating?

[P]ride is something only folk with money can afford.

Live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind. For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurled Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world.

English clubs are very exclusive. I played Royal Foxshire and they made me wear a suit and tie. . . in the shower.

The world, right now, is only us.

On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons.