“Luxury is the first, second and third cause of the ruin of republics. It is the vampire which soothes us into a fatal slumber while it sucks the life-blood of our veins.”— William R. Alger
“When I'm in London, I like to be driven in a taxi. But it must be a taxi of my own design, a converted London cab.”— Nubar Gulbenkian
“Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”— Coco Chanel
“Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.”— Paris Hilton
“Does the silk-worm expend her yellow labours for thee? For thee does she undo herself?”— Cyril Tourneur