Quotes and Sayings about Extravagance

"Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance."
- Charles Caleb Colton
(Related: Extravagance)

"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."
- Howard Hodgkin
(Related: Nature, Being, Extravagance, Reason)

"A bedroom requires a bed. Everything else was extravagance. Well, he had a bed all right."
- Audrey Meadows
(Related: Bed, Extravagance, Right)

"Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft."
- Pericles
(Related: Love, Extravagance, Mind)

"The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it."
- Norman Rockwell
(Related: American, Country, Extravagance, Now, Painting, Years)

"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."
- Ellen Wilkinson
(Related: Mother, Commercialism, Extravagance, Illness, Inefficiency, Poverty, Protest, Treatment, Waste)

"An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity."
- Bern Williams
(Related: Extravagance, Necessity, Spirit)

"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."
- Virginia Woolf
(Related: Age, Work, Genius, Cleanliness, Extravagance, Hard work, Riot)