Extravagance Quotes

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
Virginia Woolf

Work, Age, Hard

The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.
Norman Rockwell

Great, Happy, Country

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
Charles Caleb Colton

Souls, Ruined, Avarice

They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail.
Imelda Marcos

Truth, Mean, Used

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
Pericles

Love, Beautiful, Mind

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.
Ina Garten

Morning, Pleasure, Garden

I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural.
Christian Louboutin

Nature, Hate, Human

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.
Howard Hodgkin

Nature, Great, Same

A bedroom requires a bed. Everything else was extravagance. Well, he had a bed all right.
Audrey Meadows

Everything, Else, Bed

An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
Bernard Williams

Spirit, Thinks, Necessity

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Jennie Churchill

Adventure, Hand, Seldom

My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.
Ellen Wilkinson

Mother, Sick, Poverty

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