Top 133 Extravagance Quotes & Sayings

I can't pass a plant stall without feeling I must have one. But my greatest extravagance, I suppose, is roses. We've got masses.

Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself.

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

The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of the purely partisan zeal and effort and a correct appreciation of the time when the heat of the partisan should be merged in the patriotism of the citizen. ... At this hour the animosities of political strife, the bitterness of partisan defeat, and the exultation of partisan triumph should be supplanted by an ungrudging acquiescence in the popular will and a sober, conscientious concern for the general weal. ... Public extravagance begets extravagance among the people.

In the material world, where everything is valued, when you commit yourself to God, beauty and love, it can be mistaken for extravagance.

The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

When I was at university in the Fifties, Latin America was full of dictators. Trujillo was the emblematic figure because, of course, of his cruelty, corruption, extravagance, and theatricalities.

It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage.

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.

Allah loves moderation and hates extravagance and excess.

My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.

The first sign of extravagance is to buy trousers that one does not need.

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.

Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well as art.

It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our whole people, beyond any example in the world.

An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.

They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail.

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.

Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.

Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.

The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance.

The extravagance of intellect outstrips the extravagance of desire.

Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.

The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance.

One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.

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.

Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.

Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.

The extravagance of any corporate office is directly proportional to management's reluctance to reward the shareholders.

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.

It's tough working as a single parent, but I'm lucky enough to have chunks of time when I'm at home and a huge circle of friends and family, although my biggest extravagance is child care.

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

Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle - even if he can afford more.

We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for the extravagance of our lives.

Look, lovers: almost separately they come towards us through the flowery grass and slowly; parting's so far from thought of, they indulge the extravagance of walking unembraced.

Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.

Adultery is extravagance.

There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.

I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.

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

I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

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.

If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the festivals of the gods.

Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.

The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their subjects to dust.

I like to be very simple in my lifestyle. My only extravagance is... I buy lots of toys and meats for my dog.

I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear.

Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance.

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.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Most people think of Las Vegas, and they think of extravagance. But it's really a mix between fantasy and laziness.

You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.