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Extravagance is considered self-indulgent and unnecessary.
— Veronica Roth
You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I'm inclined to extravagance.
— Tennessee Williams
Rock and roll allowed people to lie about themselves, and to be sanctified for the extravagance of their fictions. This
— Steve Almond
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.
— Henry David Thoreau
Her purchases just about busted her vacation budget, but what else is a vacation for, if not for overindulgence and mindless extravagance?
— Candace Schuler
The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
— Michel De Montaigne
Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.
— Carine Roitfeld
That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.
— Richard Whately
He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l.
— Benjamin Franklin
Nature is a miserly accountant, grudging the pennies, watching the clock, punishing the smallest extravagance.
— Richard Dawkins
Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life.
— Imelda Marcos
We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.
— Robert Silverberg
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
— Demosthenes
An extravagance is something you buy which is no earthly use to your wife.
— Franklin P. Adams
Please sell $10,000 worth of stock - we have decided to lead a mad and extravagant life.
— Harry Crosby
Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.
— Samuel Johnson
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
— Lady Randolph Churchill
Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.
— Willa Cather
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
They understand not only evil, it seemed, but the extravagance of tricks with which evil presents itself as good.
— Donna Tartt
Considering the extravagance of my expectations, the flying experience was bound to be a disappointment.
— Edna Robinson
No villainous bounty yet hath passed my heart;Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given. — William Shakespeare
My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself.
— Frank Gehry
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
I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest.
— Eyvind Kang
One great cause of the vanity, extravagance and idleness that are so fast growing upon our young ladies, is the absence of domestic education.
— Lydia Maria Francis Child
Adultery is extravagance.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
We pass our lives entirely in the search for extravagant adventures; and there is no extravagance with which we are not capable of sympathy
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear.
— Gerald May
We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle - even if he can afford more.
— Masaru Ibuka
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
— Charles Caleb Colton
I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.
— Aaron Copland
Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton
— Harold Holzer
But what was happiness but an extravagance, an impossible state to maintain, partly because it was so difficult to articulate?
— Hanya Yanagihara
Extravagance was a political necessity.
— Dan Jones
There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.
— Samuel Johnson
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
Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.
— Alfred North Whitehead
There does not exist any religious system, or supernatural extravagance, which is not founded on an ignorance of the laws of nature.
— Marquis De Condorcet
Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
It is not other people who inflict the worst disappointments, but the shock between reality and the extravagance of our imagination.
— Helene Gremillon
The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration
— Helmut Schmid
The entire empire has sunk into a quagmire of extravagance from which they cannot extricate themselves.
— Liu Cixin
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
Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.
— Calvin Coolidge
There are those who hold that to quibble over matters of taste in the basic necessities of life is an extravagance
— Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.
— Alfred Bester
They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance ... But the truth will prevail.
— Imelda Marcos
An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
— Bernard Williams
Dangermouse has a detatched, five bedroom pillarbox in Mayfair - surely that's rather extravagant for a secret agent.
— C.S. Woolley
Heavy rains and a good book. A perfect extravagance.
— Carew Papritz
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
Most people think of Las Vegas, and they think of extravagance. But it's really a mix between fantasy and laziness.
— Gia Coppola
Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.
— Alfred North Whitehead