Lavishness Quotes

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.

Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends

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

Less is not more. More is more.

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.

Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil. Wouldn't it be cheaper to leave them on the tree in the first place? This deciduous business alone is a radical scheme, the brainchild of a deranged manic-depressive with limitless capital. Extravagance! Nature will try anything once.

Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

To live like a poor man is only fun when you are rich.

Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.

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

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

There are very sophisticated, very time-consuming dishes to prepare; always from scratch, and always in excess of what you could possibly need. You tend to kill your guests with kindness around here.

The luxury of ostentation affords a much less substantial and solid gratification, than the luxury of comfort, if I may be allowed the expression.

Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which are easily to be had for money, and which, when obtained, are as much worse than worthless as a harlot's love is worse than none.

Why have one chandelier when you can have two?

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

I've got Ferraris coming out me bum.

Opulence is a crime

Comfort is very important to me. I think people live better in big houses and in big clothes.

Where there is abundance you can afford waste.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers.

Luxury is a word of uncertain signification, and may be taken in a good as in a bad sense

If you look at us as a company, what's the one thing that's consistent? It has to be the biggest, the best, the greatest. My father, over the years, has bought some of the best mansions of the world. It's just something he loves.