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Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty.

I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires that are marketed, in the great fashion paradox, as both novelty and need.

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.

It is not good to demonstrate your luxury and your wealth: to rub it in the faces of others is insulting. So you should be modest; try not to insult people by showing that you can do what they cannot.

The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.