I don't think I'm unduly extravagant.

CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to obtain.

— Ambrose Bierce

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

— Ambrose Bierce

I don't like giving a gift just to cross the person off my list. They don't have to be extravagant or expensive things, they…

— Peter Facinelli

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…

— Taylor Swift

Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation.

— David Quammen

New York... Babylon-on-the-Hudson, sinful, extravagant, full of the nervous hilarity of the doomed.

— Lucius Beebe

I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.

— Imelda Marcos

Her [Mary's] motherhood extends beyond view. In the will of the Son, she becomes at once mother and maid: sheltering him, but sheltered in…

— Adrienne von Speyr

God's extravagant generosity toward us compels us to be extravagantly generous toward others.

— Andy Stanley

Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door…

— Martial

People say, 'Oh, to be the daughter of Picasso!' But it's not as extravagant as it seems. He was very special, very vibrant, but…

— Paloma Picasso

His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone…

— Evelyn Waugh

When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and…

— Sinclair Lewis

I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them.

— Mick Jagger

When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.

— Eric Hoffer