(43 quotes found)
“Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow.”
Samuel Johnson
“Test every work of intellect or faith,And everything that your own hands have wroughtAnd call those works extravagance of breathThat are not suited for such men as comeproud, open-eyed and laughing to the tomb.”
William Butler Yeats
“Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use 'Imeldific' to mean ostentatious extravagance.”
Imelda Marcos
“Honor is but an itch in youthful blood of doing acts extravagantly good”
Samuel Howard
“The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration,”
Helmut Schmidt
“An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.”
Bern Williams
“What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?”
William Law
“She didn't want to go really extravagant. She wanted to keep it simple, but obtainable.”
Julie Mikesell
“We have a nice lifestyle, but we're not extravagant.”
Paul Curtis
