(43 quotes found)
“Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding.”
Oscar Wilde
“When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich”
“We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.”
Jennie Jerome Churchill
“I was extravagant in the matter of cameras Ð anything photographic Ð I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest Ð or without.”
Edward Weston
“I would rather have my people laugh at my economies than weep for my extravagance”
Oscar II of Sweden
“The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.”
Eric Hoffer
“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
“The most extravagant thing I've ever bought is 95 tops all the same.”
Chris Martin
“The world abhors closeness, and all but admires extravagance; yet a slack hand shows weakness, and a tight hand strength”
Thomas Fowell Buxton
