Expensive clothes Quote by Cara Lynn James

“It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which the herd so diligently follow.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“For they were, in the first place, even down to the very poorest, a well-fed people, with fewer luxuries than we, but more abundant…

— Charles Kingsley

“They learned to live contently with small things, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy not respectable,…

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

“The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.”

— Kate Chopin

“We had no longing for excessive wealth: a mere competency, though earned by daily toil, so that it was reasonably sure, and free from…

— Edmund Morris

“After she’d collected all she wanted, the Bird Lady would sit on a bench with needle and thread and sew her precious scraps into…

— Ami McKay

“They wanted a girl who knew what it was like to acquire things out of amusement rather than need. Who sympathized with those whose…

— Kathleen Tessaro

“It rankled her that people richer than she were so often less worthy and attractive. More slobbish and louty. Comfort could be found in…

— Jonathan Franzen

“I had no power of withdrawing my person from a disgustful society, in the most cheerful and valuable part of the day; but I…

— William Godwin

“The Utopians wonder how any man should be so much taken with the glaring doubtful lustre of a jewel or a stone, that can…

— Thomas More

“From my personal experiences, it is evident that so many wealthy females within the kingdom are devoted to little else but frivolity, with their…

— Jean Sasson

“And if these men steal, if there is developing among them a suspicion and hatred of well-dressed, satisfied people, the reason is not to…

— John Steinbeck