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And he was pretentious:
Absorbing, mysterious, of infinite richness, this life.
A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality
The meal was pretentious - a kind of beetroot soup with greasy croutons; pork underdone with loud vulgar cabbage, potato croquettes, tinned peas in tiny jam-tart cases, watery gooseberry sauce; trifle made with a resinous wine, so jammy that all my teeth lit up at once.
Luxury is a state of mind.
A pauper in the midst of wealth.
The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
SPOM: Superficial, pretentious, and obnoxiously materialistic.
Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.
Unkingly, in so many ways, My King.
GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.
Resplendence suits you.
It is sparkling light, aromatic plants, a lofty palace, a flowing river, ripe fruit, a beautiful wife and abundant clothing, in an eternal abode of radiant joy, in beautiful soundly-constructed high houses.
Hopeless. Freak. Elephant. Pitiful
I am actually the most unglamorous person on the planet. I am the most unfinished, unpolished person ever.
Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.
Grapes are juicy. Strawberries. Oranges. Good pork chops are succulent," said Dusty. "But the word isn't accurately descriptive of a person."
Smiling with delight, Ahriman said, "Oh, really, not accurately descriptive? Be careful housepainter. Your genes are showing. What if I were a cannibal?
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
dazzled by the sheer essence of the whole,
Pompous worm-faced snob-head camel turd.
They fascinated him, the unsubtle cowering of the almost rich in the presence of the rich, and the rich in the presence of the very rich; to have money, it seemed, was to be consumed by money. Obinze felt repulsion and longing; he pitied them, but he also imagined being like them.
The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.
Smooth and ordered on the outside; roiling and chaotic and desperately secretive underneath, but not noticeably so, never noticeably so.
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
Conceited little mega-puppy.
Cherish the fabulous, the fantastic, the beautiful, the graceful, the moments of abandon, laughter, quirkiness. Cherish the tiny incredible details, the gigantic & varied display, and the infinite depths - of life.
Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.
Freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.
A very prosperous people, flushed with great victories and successes, are seldom so pious, so humble, so just, or so provident as to perpetuate their happiness.
Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind, have to do with the attractions which command our admiration.
Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane ...
Harvard was a kind of luxurious afternoon.
The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny
Indescribably delirious!
Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
Think only of beautiful splendid.
I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.
grandeur that few people ever
I never want to be pretentious.Pretentious-- Kesha
Prestige! Sir, is it nothing? To be revered by fools, gaped at by children, envied by the rich and scorned by the wise.
EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.
The taste for luxuries increases with marvelous rapidity under indulgence.
("A Night In An Old Castle")
Avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic's quiver - words like "enthralling" and "luminous."
lush and flagitious mistresses. It
I loved those little bits of luxury in my day. Dresses made to
my exact measurements, exotic desserts flown in simply because it was Thursday, and an endless
supply of beautiful things were all perks; and they were easily my favorite parts of the job.
I confess I found it somewhat insipid when I last went ... it was all so prosy - so bonnety - so whisty and teacuppy - you see, the adjectives for it do not even exist, and I must invent them.
elegance and euphoria
The monotonous beauty of wealth.
Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.
Rich and bitter depth of their experience, the
Fabulous is as fabulous does.
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.
To me all palaces are preposterous, a tasteless, dreary expression of ostentation.
a fully flowered narcissist.
Beautiful, luscious and flowing. Atop the governor's head.
A pleasantly situated hotel close to the sea, and chalets by the water's edge where one breakfasted. Clientele well-to-do, and although I count myself no snob I cannot abide paper bags and orange peel. ("Not After Midnight")
Luxury must have that over-the-top attitude but be effortless at the same time, that's what feels chic to me.
The truly covetous have never enough!
Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me.
Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.
Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.
To live in Venice is like being domesticated in the heart of an opal.
Luxury is the opportunity to experience quality, be it a place, a person or an object.
What very often happens when people make films about rich people, the camera is quite mesmerised by the opulence and quite theatrical in fact.
Accurst ambition, how dearly I have bought you.
Arrogant. Conceited. Egomaniac!
An epicure is one who gets nothing better than the cream of everything but cheerfully makes the best of it.
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
For abundance and endless consumption are the ideals of the poor: they are the mirage in the desert of misery.
The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.
How terrible it must be to be a member of the noble class. So many rules. Such restraint. You must feel like a caged bird, battering its wings against the sides of its golden prison.
We consume luxury. We participate in the image industry in a meaningful way, and we have a look and a background that should be taken on its own terms.
garish displays of wealth,
The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word luxury.
A man with an immense capacity for the enjoyment of existence.
The luxury of ostentation affords a much less substantial and solid gratification, than the luxury of comfort, if I may be allowed the expression.
People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.
The rich landlord is he who collects with sternness, who accepts no excuse, and will have his own. There are moments of irritation and of real bitterness against him, but there is still admiration, because he is rich and successful.
The acute experience of great beauty readily evokes a nameless yearning for something more than earth can offer. Elegant splendor reawakens our spirit's aching need for the infinite, a hunger for more than matter can provide.
Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.
The taste of the more recent accessions to the leisure class proper and of the middle and lower classes still requires a pecuniary beauty to supplement the aesthetic beauty, even in those objects which are primarily admired for the beauty that belongs to them as natural growths.
Pretentious."
"So? I love pretentious people!"
"Why?"
"They try so hard to be interesting, you don't have to do any work.
How exquisite life had once been! How gorgeous in its pomp and decoration! Even to read of the luxury of the dead was wonderful.
The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.
He sits in his tomb up top of the Newport hotel. It contains a crunchy armchair, a floppy bed, several arrogant spiders, a mattress with stains the shapes of planets and an existential crisis. But he wouldn't want to sound too French about it.
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
undemonstrative in a burly fat-pig style
Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.
What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste?
Rich. Handsome. Privileged. Heartless.
A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.
London was so rich, and also so green, and somehow so detailed: full of stuff that had been made, and bought, and placed, and groomed, and shaped, and washed clean, and put on display as if the whole city was for sale.
The magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser's work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question, How immense can modesty be?
Intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich
The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.