Extravagance quotes
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I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.
-- Aaron Copland -
He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy.
-- Alec-Tweedie -
The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.
-- Alfred Bester -
Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
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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 -
If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the festivals of the gods.
-- Aristippus -
Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.
-- Benjamin Rush -
An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
-- Bernard Williams -
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Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.
-- Carine Roitfeld -
The most extravagant thing I've ever bought is 95 tops all the same.
-- Chris Martin -
in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace.
-- Cormac McCarthy -
The current fashion in belligerent atheism usually involves flinging condemnation around with a kind of gallant extravagance, more or less in the direction of all faiths at once, with little interest in precise aim.
-- David Bentley Hart -
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We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.
-- Edwin Percy Whipple -
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 -
An extravagance is something you buy which is no earthly use to your wife.
-- Franklin P. Adams -
The first sign of extravagance is to buy trousers that one does not need.
-- George Ade -
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I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear.
-- Gerald May -
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 -
They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail.
-- Imelda Marcos -
Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life.
-- Imelda Marcos -
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In the material world, where everything is valued, when you commit yourself to God, beauty and love, it can be mistaken for extravagance.
-- Imelda Marcos -
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
-- Lady Randolph Churchill -
The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.
-- Lewis H. Lapham -
Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper -
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Adultery is extravagance.
-- Maxine Hong Kingston -
Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll always have more to give.
-- Michael Cunningham -
Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.
-- Plutarch -
I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
-- Rachel Nichols -
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Look, lovers: almost separately they come towards us through the flowery grass and slowly; parting's so far from thought of, they indulge the extravagance of walking unembraced.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke -
That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.
-- Richard Whately -
Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.
-- Tanith Lee -
The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.
-- William Feather -
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It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage.
-- William Mackergo Taylor -
A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.
-- William Shenstone -
I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest.
-- Eyvind Kang -
The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration
-- Helmut Schmid -
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The new century will see unimaginable levels of wastefulness and extravagance, but it will also be an age in which the individual human being acquires a true and universally recognised value.
-- Peter Robinson -
The things we do at Christmas are touched with a certain extravagance, as beautiful, in some of its aspects, as the extravagance of nature in June.
-- Robert Collyer
