Extravagance Quote by Bernard Williams

“Of that ineffable essence which we call Spirit, he that thinks most, will say least.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hobbies should be wives, not mistresses. It will not do to have more than one at a time. One hobby leads you out of…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

— William Shenstone

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

— Anais Nin

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

If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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 manages employees,…

— Nancy Lublin

Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently…

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

I would never want to model as my career, but fashion is my hobby. When you love what you're wearing, you feel good. I…

— Maria Valverde

“Heri kuwa maskini mwenye pesa nyingi kuliko tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka.”

— Enock Maregesi

It is not without trepidation that I have appropriated the codes of the Sublime and the Picturesque in my work. After all, serious photographers…

— John Pfahl