Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
The first sign of extravagance is to buy trousers that one does not need. — George Ade Copy Share Image
No villainous bounty yet hath passed my heart; Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I prefer clothes that are simple, well-cut, but with one major extravagance. Something with the sleeves, with the skirt, but nothing too… — Carolina Herrera Copy Share Image
“It struck Marra, watching, as an extravagance of grief. Someone wanted the world to know how sad he could afford to be.” — T. Kingfisher Copy Share Image
I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you… — William James Copy Share Image
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt; that is, fetters them with irons… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make… — Pericles Copy Share Image
That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
I can look back . . . at two distinct periods of opinion whose foundations I have successively come to distrust -… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper,… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
Free will does not enable any man to perform good works, unless he is assisted by grace; indeed, the special grace which… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I've spent as much as 30 grand on a watch but it's not about flaunting my wealth. I don't have many extravagances… — Jenson Button Copy Share Image
Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The Byzantines hammered away at their hard and orthodox symbols, because they could not be in a mood to believe that men… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Do you know of any more overwhelming and humbling expression for God's condescension and extravagance towards us human beings than that He… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Mansions once Knew their own masters, and laborious hinds, That had surviv'd the father, serv'd the son. Now the legitimate and rightful… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“That is quite another thing," said Albert; "because a man under the influence of violent passion loses all power of reflection, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
… that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“He visited the weavers and tailors with his brother, choosing garments with cuffs of feathers and exquisite embroidery, with collars as sharp… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
It is not expensive to be beautiful. It takes only a little effort to be presentable and beautiful. But it takes some… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
There was one bursting now, a delicate constellation of many-coloured stars which drifted down and lingered in the still air… The final… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
