Extravagance Quotes - Page 3

An extravagance is something you buy which is no earthly use to your wife.

I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest.

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

The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.

It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our whole people, beyond any example in the world.

No villainous bounty yet hath passed my heart; Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given.

Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

The things we do at Christmas are touched with a certain extravagance, as beautiful, in some of its aspects, as the extravagance of nature in June.

I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.

Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

The new century will see unimaginable levels of wastefulness and extravagance, but it will also be an age in which the individual human being acquires a true and universally recognised value.

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll always have more to give.

The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their subjects to dust.

The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance.

The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration

The first sign of extravagance is to buy trousers that one does not need.

He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy.