Costliness Quotes
- The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense… — Thucydides
- Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty. — Thorstein Veblen
- I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their finery.… — Marguerite Duras
- Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a reason for being sunken other… — Alice Morse Earle