I’ve had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year’s worth of rent.

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.

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

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

If McLaren give me a car, that’s fine, but I don’t tend to buy fancy stuff anyway or super-nice clothes.

I don’t have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don’t know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don’t know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don’t think you need all that stuff.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.

There’s nothing – I’ve bought everything I want. I don’t like yachts or anything; you know, I’m not a yacht person, and I’ve got pretty much the nicest plane I’d want to have.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

I cap myself when I shop; I don’t like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it’s scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.

My music is a luxury.

Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego – its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.

If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it’s always expensive.

There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

I tell myself every day I love my Jacuzzi, I love my marble floors, I love my high ceilings.

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy’s will are not allowed that luxury.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.

We’re introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night’s sleep.

Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the Ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

I’m filthy rich!

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

I have a nice office. I have a nice house… So I’m not denying myself some great things. I just don’t happen to have expensive hobbies.

I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don’t understand.

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

People don’t want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.