Extravagance Quotes · Page 2

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nouveau riche is better than no riche.

— Imelda Marcos

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.

— Carine Roitfeld

Extravagant love is never wasted.

— Bob Goff

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

— Michel de Montaigne

“I don't consider elegance and extravagance to be the same element.”

— Karah Khalia

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

— William Shakespeare

The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.

— Francois Fenelon

He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

— Samuel Johnson

I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear.

— Gerald May

I've always led a pretty simple life, with few extravagances. The money in tennis never drove me.

— Pete Sampras

If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the festivals of the gods.

— Aristippus

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

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle - even if he can…

— Masaru Ibuka

Some have been ensnared in the net of excessive debt. The net of interest holds them fast, requiring them to sell their…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

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

— Robert Collyer

“Her purchases just about busted her vacation budget, but what else is a vacation for, if not for overindulgence and mindless extravagance?”

— Candace Schuler

I believe that some of my best images have [the] ambiguity which is an essence of life. In this sense I am…

— John Gutmann

“Unfortunately he was one of those who always tend to take their own fancies seriously; and in whose otherwise legitimate extravagance there…

— G.K. Chesterton

When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“We sing lyrical excess, exacerbated expressionism, imponed objectivity, inventiveness, meta-baroque, extravaganza, super metaphor, sublimity, strident, exposure, super-pone, noise, super-objectivity, zillionism, fragmentation and…

— Lepota L. Cosmo

capital is the result of saving, and not of spending. The spendthrift who wastes his substance in riotous living decreases the capital…

— Millicent Fawcett

The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but…

— Norman Rockwell

It is not expensive to be beautiful. It takes only a little effort to be presentable and beautiful. But it takes some…

— Imelda Marcos

My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who…

— Nancy Lublin

If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of…

— May Sarton

I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High…

— Christian Louboutin

Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Plutarch

“They understand not only evil, it seemed, but the extravagance of tricks with which evil presents itself as good.”

— Donna Tartt

“Maskini mwenye pesa nyingi ni tajiri bahili. Tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka ni tajiri badhiri.”

— Enock Maregesi

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

— Laozi

The extravagance of intellect outstrips the extravagance of desire.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Oscar Wilde

Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.

— Oscar Wilde

“Please sell $10,000 worth of stock — we have decided to lead a mad and extravagant life.”

— Harry Crosby

“Poverty is apt to strike suddenly like influenza, it is well to have a few memories of extravagance in store for bad…

— Graham Greene

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

— William Shenstone