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
Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.
Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
It's so nice to slip into the lap of luxury.
Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.
Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.
Decadence is wonderful.
one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the splendor of palace-like railway stations and hotels. Our national tympanum is so deafened by that blare of sumptuousness that we have no ears for the still, small voice of beauty.
O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!
To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way.
Silver and ermine and red faces full of port wine.
