Extravagant Quotes

• People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

  Imelda Marcos

  Funny, Stupid, Garbage Disposal

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

  William Shenstone

  Money, Men, Rich

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.156

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• The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

  Chester A. Arthur

  People, Evil, Expenditures

  Chester A. Arthur's veto message to the House of Representatives, August 1, 1882.

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• Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.

  Charles Dickens

  Dumb, Words Of Wisdom, Injustice And Oppression

  Charles Dickens (2006). “Nicholas Nickleby: Easyread Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.

  Wayne Rogers

  Thinking, Aerospace, Actresses

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• But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

  Charles Ives

  Men, May, Language

  Charles Ives, Stephen Drury (2012). “Piano sonata no. 2: "Concord" : with the Essays before a sonata”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Stupid

  William Law (1739). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of Christians. By William Law, A.M.”, p.120

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• Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.

  Tanith Lee

  Extravagance, Way, Subtle

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• The most extravagant thing I've ever bought is 95 tops all the same.

  Chris Martin

  Extravagance

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• A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Car, House, Lovely

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• There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it.

  Max Lucado

  Valentines Day, Love You, Missing

  Max Lucado (2012). “Cast of Characters: Lost and Found: Encounters with the Living God”, p.17, Thomas Nelson

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• I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant hope.

  George Saunders

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant.

  Frank Gehry

  Perception, Overcoming, Know How

  "Gehry slows but not by choice" by Martin Knelman, www.thestar.com. March 02, 2009.

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• As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but, in my view, its judgment is an improvident and extravagant exercise of the power of judicial review that the Constitution extends to this Court.

  Byron White

  Exercise, Views, Judicial Power

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• The capacity for extravagant emotion that my husband finds so attractive in me can be exhausting, especially to a child. My moods are mercurial, and this can be terrifying. I know, because I was a daughter of a mother with a changeable temperament.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Mother, Daughter, Husband

  Ayelet Waldman (2009). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.95, Anchor

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• I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant and spending all my money: and what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too.

  Jane Austen

  Sorry, Spending, Has Beens

  Jane Austen (2008). “Letters of Jane Austen: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.48, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If it's darkness we're having, let it be extravagant.

  Jane Kenyon

  Darkness, Ifs

  Jane Kenyon (1990). “Let evening come: poems”, Graywolf Pr

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• Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own

  Sallust

  Extravagance, Greedy, Property

  'Catiline' ch. 5

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• Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Men, Pits

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

  Lady Randolph Churchill

  Travel, Memorable, Adventure

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• Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Greed, Soul, Extravagance

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• Extravagant is, I think, the word we all thought when we met ... A lot of money went into that [The Grand Tour's ]. I just thought it would be a good idea to have a bridge from the old to the new and that was a way of saying 'Right, well now look where we are.'

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Thinking, Bridges, Ideas

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it,
  like jewels, small islands.

  Gina Gershon

  Islands, Receiving Love, Jewels

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• Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so.

  Laurence Sterne

  Art, Humor, Enemy

  Laurence Sterne (1847). “Works, Containing the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters and C”, p.29

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