Giorgio Armani, fashion designer:
I believe that style is the only real luxury that is really desirable.

Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), English author and philosopher: 
Silence is the virtue of fools.

Angelo Bonati, CEO of watchmaker Officine Panerai: 
Luxury is attention to detail, originality, exclusivity and above all quality.

Lord Byron (1788-1824), English romantic poet: 
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), Scottish-American billionaire and philanthropist: 
It is the mind that makes the body rich.

Coco Chanel (1883-1971), founder of Chanel: 
Fashion passes, style remains.

Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), actor: 
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Winston Churchill (1874-1965), politician:
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has ever taken from me.

Michael Broadbent, wine auctioneer at Christie's: 
What a life, without wine!

Ettore Bugatti (1881-1947), car magnate: 
Nothing is too beautiful, nothing is too expensive.

Francis Ford Coppola, film director: 
Time is the lens through which dreams are captured.

Zino Davidoff (1906-1994), founder of Davidoff Cigars: 
Smoke less, but smoke more expensively.

Rene Descartes, French philosopher (1596-1650): 
Bene vixit, bene qui latuit. (He lives well who is well hidden)

Diana Dors, British actress (1931 - 1984): 
What is bad about luxury as long as you can afford it?

Jean-Louis Dumas, chairman of Hermes: 
Luxury can be very simple, for example, staying 15 minutes longer in bed.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955), physicist: 
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955), physicist: 
Time flies when you are having fun.

Anton Wolfgang Count Faber-Castell, CEO of Faber-Castell: 
Luxury means to live free of conventions and expectations.

Enzo Ferrari (1898-1988), founder of Ferrari:
The client is not always right.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), American author: 
Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

Bernard Fornas, Managing Director of Cartier: 
Better nouveau riche than never rich!

Benjamin Franklin, American politician and diplomat (1706-1790): 
There can't be good living where there is not good drinking!

Jean Paul Gaultier, founder of Gaultier: 
Elegance is a question of personality, more than one's clothing.

Jean Paul Getty (1892-1976), American billionaire: 
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German poet, from The Divine (1783): 
Noble be man, helpful and good!

Nicholas Hayek, founder of Swatch AG: 
There is no retirement for artists and entrepreneurs.

Horaz (65-8 BC), Roman poet, Odes:
Carpe diem (make use of, enjoy the day).

Victor Hugo (1802 - 1855), French author: 
Nothing is stronger than an idea whose time has come.

Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, Irish novelist (1855 - 1897): 
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Hugh Johnson, renowned wine expert: 
Wine lovers are good looking, intelligent, sexy and healthy.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), poet: 
When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; 
for there is in London all that life can afford.

John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946), English economist: 
My only regret in life is that I did not drink more Champagne.

Ralph Lauren, fashion designer and founder of Polo: 
I'm interested in longevity, timelessness, style - not fashion.

William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), author: 
A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know.

Stanley Marcus (1906-2002), former head of Neiman Marcus Department Stores:
I have never found a man who needs a necktie, 
but he may be fascinated by the colour or design - and he wants it.

Jean-Remy von Matt, founder of ad agency Jung von Matt:
Blogs are the toilet walls of the internet.

Stella McCartney, fashion designer: 
Success financially is a measure of creative success, it is the same in all arts.

Marilyn Monroe, American actress and sex symbol, 1926-1962: 
I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.

Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, 
French social commentator and political thinker (1689 - 1755): 
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

Stirling Moss, legendary racing driver: 
If everything is under control you are just not driving fast enough.

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), emperor: 
In victory you deserve champagne, in defeat you need it.

Helmut Newton, photographer: 
My women are always victorious.

Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate and billionaire (1906-1975): 
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Ciro Paone, Patron of Kiton: 
Quality is simplicity, understatement and clear lines.

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), artist: 
Give me a museum and I will fill it.

Plinius (24-79 AD), writer, in Naturalis Historia: 
In vino veritas (in wine there is truth, i.e., he who is drunk tells the truth).

Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (1721 - 1764): 
Après nous, le déluge. (it does not matter what happens when we have gone)

Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French novelist: 
If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (1900-2002): 
Life must be enjoyable.

Till Reiter, CEO and co-owner of Ludwig Reiter: 
Luxury is to have a job you can enjoy.

John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937), billionaire and philantrophist: 
The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

Roman proverb: Annus fugit, facta manent 
(The year has passed, the achievements remain).

Roman proverb: De gustibus non est disputandum 
(There is no dispute about taste).

Roman proverb: Pecunia non olet 
(Money does not smell).

Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868), composer: 
Wagner has beautiful moments but also bad quarters of an hour.

Sir Henry Royce (1863-1933), co-founder of Rolls Royce Motorcars Ltd.: 
The quality remains long after the price is forgotten.

Karl-Friedrich Scheufele, Vice President of Chopard: 
Only idiots do not change their mind.

Hans-Joerg Seeberger, CEO,  Egana Goldpfeil: 
Luxury items are things you reward yourself with.

Paul Smith, fashion designer, founder and owner of Paul Smith: 
The Japanese are hard to understand, but once you do the world is your oyster.

Domenico de Sole, former CEO of Gucci: 
Luxury is the balance of design, in the sense of beauty and highest quality.

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), poet: 
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. (nota bene: Rose is also a girl's name)

Claude Terrail, owner and director of the restaurant Tour d'Argent in Paris: 
There is nothing more serious than pleasure.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), poet: 
I have a simple taste, only the best.