Extravagance

She had not loved her supposed father and mother, who had interfered with her pleasure, disapproving of what they called her extravagance and frivolity .... ❋ Unknown (1889)

Presently, encouraged by my lamb-like reticence, Alice began to complain gently of what she termed my extravagance, and finally she fell into the pernicious practice of berating me roundly for neglecting my family for the selfish -- yes, the cruel -- gratification of a foolish fad, and then she would weep and gather up the two boys and wonder how soon we should all be in the poorhouse. ❋ Eugene Field (1872)

He pinches me in money matters so closely, and grumbles so eternally at what he calls my extravagance, that I'm out of all patience. ❋ Unknown (1847)

My really great and exciting extravagance is that I travel first class even when ❋ Unknown (2010)

This question of establishing an approximately true picture of Canada's resources is very important to Canada's youth, for an education founded in extravagance, based upon the assumption of untold resources easily converted to great wealth is ill-designed to prepare Canadian youth for the struggle that is ahead of them if these estimates of wealth should prove greatly exaggerated. ❋ Unknown (1938)

That spirit of extravagance is detrimental to the interests of the country. ❋ Unknown (1908)

His magnificent extravagance is well exemplified in the small palace he built for the Empress Eugénie, and which has never been occupied since. ❋ Unknown (1885)

If you call extravagance and corruption, denying the right of petition and totally disregarding the Constitution -- those only safe guards of the people -- and apologizing for, shielding, and giving free license to the Ku-Klux, those midnight murderers that have made the South almost an earthly hell, "working hard for the best interests of the State," the late Legislature has done it to perfection. ❋ No Author (1872)

He was the son of a merchant, who, having spent his substance in extravagance and dissipation, had ❋ Unknown (1856)

[Page 18] husband repaid her with harshness and brutality, he all the time rioting and revelling in extravagance and dissipation, and squandering in the company of guilty paramours the produce of her industry? ❋ Unknown (1855)

The prose shouldn’t go beyond the necessary, extravagance is wasteful and show-offy, everything needs to be neat and trim like an suburban garden. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I suppose any auditory extravagance is acceptable in the cause of climate justice, whatever that is, so I am inviting others to join me in flatulating 350 times on the 13th of December; it will take concentration, but it’s worth it because Canadian winters are really cold. ❋ Unknown (2009)

While the Post editors may have a point about political pandering, they might have directed more of their outrage at their fellow elitists on Wall Street, perhaps telling them that it's way past time to recognize that their extravagance is a huge part of the problem. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The fact is that Lady Inger+ is a brilliant piece of romantic extravagance, which is extremely interesting in illuminating the evolution of Ibsen's genius, and particularly as showing him in the act of emancipating himself from Danish traditions, but which has little positive value as a drama. ❋ Unknown (2008)

So what others may call extravagance he may not see it as extravagance, but he's rich ... ❋ Unknown (2007)

What we're calling extravagance is not so much extravagance to him, because when I met him he was driving a very nice car, and that was 36 years ago. ❋ Unknown (2007)

There is an insane extravagance, which is a sham; and horrible squalor behind the scenery. ❋ Unknown (2005)

"It may be a folly, but you would not think of calling extravagance a sin?" asked a young man of his minister. ❋ Various (N/A)