Expensive Taste Quotes

There's nothing - I've bought everything I want. I don't like yachts or anything; you know, I'm not a yacht person, and I've got pretty much the nicest plane I'd want to have.

When a thing is bought not for its use but for its costliness, cheapness is no recommendation. As Sismondi remarks, the consequence of cheapening articles of vanity, is not that less is expended on such things, but that the buyers substitute for the cheapened article some other which is more costly, or a more elaborate quality of the same thing; and as the inferior quality answered the purpose of vanity equally well when it was equally expensive, a tax on the article is really paid by nobody: it is a creation of public revenue by which nobody loses.

Wealth has never been a sufficient source of honour in itself. It must be advertised, and the normal medium is obtrusively expensive.

If Romney were a chair, he'd be a squishy, expensively upholstered easy chair that bore the imprint of whoever last sat on it.

It took me years to get out of the bargain basement. I always wanted to walk into a men's store and buy a cashmere sweater.

Time is money, so I went and bought a rolex.

I have Louis Vuitton everything. I'm obsessed.

I had been designing for Alessi and Swid Powell and Steuben and high-end people, and people always complained, 'Michael, we'd love to buy your stuff, but it's too expensive.'

I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.

I met her in a club down in North Soho, where you drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca-Cola.

You don't have to carry a designer bag that costs more than a car to look cool.

No matter what, I always have expensive designer shoes. It's all about the shoes for me.

I don't do anything by halves and wine is an expensive passion.

New York vintage is too expensive!

The best investment would be a Monika Chiang handbag. Her stuff is so on point. Her pieces are really classic, sophisticated, expensive-looking and they're just chic.

It's the old story: do you want a normal car, or something top of the range? That is how I am - the older I am, the more expensive I am!

With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.

Always the light fixtures I love are Italian, from the '50s and '60s. I'm like, 'What's that? I want it!' And it's always $40,000 vintage Italian.

If you eat caviar every day it's difficult to return to sausages.

It's very expensive to be me.

I like a girl who spend a little cash for her shoes.

I am an Armani and a Dolce & Gabbana kind of a person.

Never buy anything in a room with a chandelier.

The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.

My style is a mashup of different eras, but each piece I have makes me feel good about myself. I do have a taste for expensive shoes.