Extravagance Quotes - Page 3

• I've always led a pretty simple life, with few extravagances. The money in tennis never drove me.

  Pete Sampras

  Simple, Tennis, Simple Life

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• He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy.

  Alec-Tweedie

  Doe, Want, Ends

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• Allah loves moderation and hates extravagance and excess.

  Umar

  Inspiring, Hate, Excess

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• 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

  Car, Expenses, Justify

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• Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life.

  Imelda Marcos

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• Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling of reckless extravagance.

  Tove Jansson

  Giving, Feelings, Gold

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• It is not expensive to be beautiful. It takes only a little effort to be presentable and beautiful. But it takes some effort. And unfortunately people think of beauty as luxury, beauty as frivolity, ... or extravagance. Beauty is a discipline, beauty is art, is harmony, in the ideological sense and in the theological sense, beauty is God and love made real. And the ultimate reach in this world is beauty.

  Imelda Marcos

  Beautiful, Art, Real

  "Imelda". Documentary, Biography, 2003.

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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

  Beauty And Love, World, Commit

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• Adultery is extravagance.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Infidelity, Adultery

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2014). “The Woman Warrior: Picador Classic”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• Free will does not enable any man to perform good works, unless he is assisted by grace; indeed, the special grace which the elect alone receive through regeneration. For I stay not to consider the extravagance of those who say that grace is offered equally and promiscuously to all

  John Calvin

  Men, Grace, Special

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.235, Jazzybee Verlag

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• All the average human being asks is something he can call a home; a family that is fed and warm; and now and then a little happiness; once in a long while an extravagance.

  Mother Jones

  Home, Average, Long

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• If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon the thieves.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Journey, Men, Looks

  1878 An Inland Voyage,'The Oise in Flood'.

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• My heart's so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love in public; and the foolish world, Which knows not tenderness, will think me mad.

  John Dryden

  Heart, Thinking, Mad

  1678 All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 2.

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• 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

  Beautiful, June, Aspect

  Robert Collyer (1877). “The Simple Truth: A Home Book”

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• Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.

  Willa Cather

  Details, Too Much, Form

  Willa Cather, Marilee Lindemann (2008). “O Pioneers!”, p.173, Oxford University Press

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• I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Grandmother, Grandparent, Wish

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (1994). “The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Virago Pr

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• It is not without trepidation that I have appropriated the codes of the Sublime and the Picturesque in my work. After all, serious photographers have spent most of this century trying to expunge such extravagances from their art. The tradition lives on, mostly in calendars and picture postcards. I was challenged to rework and revitalize that which had been so roundly denigrated.

  John Pfahl

  Art, Sublime, Trying

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• An extravagance is something you buy which is no earthly use to your wife.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Sex, Wife, Use

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• Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Harbour, Certain, Civilised Society

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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• Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection, thoroughly qualified him to touch the weak, superstitious part of his readers' imagination, and made him capable of succeeding where he had nothing to support him besides the strength of his own genius.

  Joseph Addison

  Imagination, Perfection, Support

  Joseph Addison (1975). “Essays in Criticism and Literary Theory”, Harlan Davidson

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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

  Book, Giving, Letters

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• The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition . . . is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration.

  Adam Smith

  Powerful, Men, Errors

  Adam Smith, John Ramsay McCulloch (1828). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.115

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• A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. It undermines the virtues necessary for the support of the social system, and encourages propensities destructive to its happiness. It wars against industry, frugality, and economy, and it fosters the evil spirits of extravagance and speculation.

  Daniel Webster

  Wisdom, War, Evil

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1853). “Speeches in the convention to amend the constitution of Massachusetts ; Speeches in Congress”, p.394

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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

  Age, Levels, Individual

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• I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest.

  Eyvind Kang

  Believe, Tree, Fruit

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