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Letter "L" » luxury
«Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.»
Author: Christy Mathewson
(Baseball Player)
| About:
Baseball
| Keywords:
automobile, fans, look upon, luxury, odor, odors, umpire, umpired, Umpiring
«Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.»
«I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.»
Author: Coco Chanel
(Fashion designer)
| About:
Language,
Lies,
Love,
Luxury,
Vulgarity,
Words
| Keywords:
luxury, ornateness, richness, ugliest, vulgarity
«Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up»
«I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers / because males have got to try and justify their existence.»
Author: Orson Welles
| Keywords:
belong to, brighten, brightened, brightening, brightens, desperation, feathers, have got, justify, luxury, madden, maddening, prettier, Pretty Woman, The Birds
«It is impossible to overdo luxury»
«Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Literature,
World
| Keywords:
fiction, literature, luxury, necessity
«One must be poor to know the luxury of giving»
«I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars -- it's a luxury I can't afford.»
«Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.»
Author: Tennessee Williams
| Keywords:
conceits, fang, fangs, germinate, germinated, germinates, germinating, learns, luxury, The Wolf, vanities, wolf
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