Extravagance Quotes - Page 2

Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare.

Indulgence is emptiness. I have proved the limits of food and frivolity. There is no real fulfillment in meaningless rushes of pleasure. You try to conceal the emptiness with more extravagance, only to find the thrills becoming less satisfying and more fleeting. Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. However you try to disguise it, you end up feeding without being nourished.

I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.

A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.

Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.

An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.

One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.

That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.

The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.

We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.

Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.

Allah loves moderation and hates extravagance and excess.

Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt; that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls.

There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.

The extravagance of intellect outstrips the extravagance of desire.

Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance.

Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.

Look, lovers: almost separately they come towards us through the flowery grass and slowly; parting's so far from thought of, they indulge the extravagance of walking unembraced.

Adultery is extravagance.