Luxury Quotes
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In the long term, there are many factors that will help the luxury market, the creation of new wealth and the Asian tourist boom, (Quote by - Dean Stanley)
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. (Quote by - Hannah Arendt)
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury. (Quote by - Thomas Moore )
Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure (Quote by - Jane Brody)
It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh (Quote by - Durkheim)
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves. (Quote by - Berthold Auerbach)
All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste. (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)
Sofas 'twas half a sin to sit upon, So costly were they; carpets, every stitch Of workmanship so rare, they make you wish You could glide o'er them like a golden fish. (Quote by -George Gordon Noel Byron)
It is impossible to overdo luxury (Quote by - French Proverb)
Harvard was a kind of luxurious afternoon. (Quote by - Lincoln Kirstein)
Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health. (Quote by - Martin Tupper)
Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor. (Quote by - Henry Home)
In the luxury segment, if we just focused on fuel economy, that wouldn't be enough. (Quote by - Bob Carter)
There, in her den, lay pompous luxury, Stretch'd out at length; no vice could boast such high And genial victories as she had won; Of which proud trophies there at large were shown, Besides small states and kingdoms ruined Those mighty monarchies that had o'erspread The spacious earth, and stretch'd their conquering arms From pole to pole, by her ensnaring charms Were quite consum'd; there lay imperial Rome, That vanquish'd all the world, by her o'ercome; Fetter'd was th' old Assyrian lion there; The Grecian leopard, and the Persian bear; With others numberless, lamenting by, Examples of the power of luxury. (Quote by - Thomas May)
I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem (Quote by - Fitz-Greene Halleck)
By luxury we condemn ourselves to greater torments than have yet been invented by anger or revenge, or inflicted by the greatest tyrants upon the worst of men. (Quote by - Sir William)
The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury. (Quote by - John Bright)
It is not a luxury beachfront home but a well-maintained simple house. (Quote by - Carol Kaneshiro)
Never economize on luxuries (Quote by - Angela Thirkell)
The last couple of years, we were rotating three or four guys in there. We don't have that luxury right now. (Quote by - Glen Mason)
All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Areas with a larger personal income can support more stores. A higher level of per capita income can support luxury-type stores. (Quote by - David Lenze)
It feels like a luxury fiber. Michael is a fabric snob. (Quote by - Nancy McGee)
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury--you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
The greatest luxury of riches is, that they enable you to escape so much good advice. (Quote by - Arthur Helps)
It guarantees downtown will have only luxury or subsidized housing, which ... will not make a healthy neighborhood. (Quote by - Kate Joncas)
What think you, if he were conveyed to bed, Wrapped in sweet clothes, rings put upon his fingers, A most delicious banquet by his bed, And brave attendants near him when he wakes, Would not the beggar then forget himself? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
O luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
Luxury is a word of uncertain signification, and may be taken in a good as in a bad sense (Quote by - David Hume)
Luxury is more deadly than any foe. (Quote by - Juvenal)
There is luxury in self reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Queen Victoria will be a classically-styled Cunard queen, offering the very best of our heritage, along with the luxury and modern-day comforts. (Quote by - Carol Marlow)
Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism. (Quote by - Ernest Mandel)
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies. (Quote by - Charles De Montesquieu)
Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost. (Quote by - Thomas Morton)
Wealth ... and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and vicious-ness, and both of discontent. (Quote by - Plato)
Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation (Quote by - Montaigne)
Joy has nothing to do with material things, or with a man's outward circumstance ... a man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched, and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy. (Quote by - William Barclay)
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never afford himself. (Quote by - Golda Meir)
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty (Quote by - Socrates)
Chemical toilets were a luxury. (Quote by - Dennis Anderson)
I've never been in love with the luxury tax. I think that goes without saying. (Quote by - Billy Hunter)
Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance (Quote by - Giambattista Vico)
Luxury is the first, second and third cause of the ruin of republics. It is the vampire which soothes us into a fatal slumber while it sucks the lifeblood of our veins. (Quote by - Edward Payson)
We see the pernicious effects of luxury in the ancient Romans, who immediately found themselves poor as soon as this vice got footing among them. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
A country where flowers are priced so as to make them a luxury has yet to learn the first principles of civilization (Quote by - Chinese Proverbs)
The future is the most expensive luxury in the world. (Quote by - Thornton Wilder)
It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing. (Quote by - Sarah McLachlan)
In the coming five years, there'll be activity in the luxury world and we'll be there, (Quote by - Bernard Arnault)
For me, coming into this job now, having Bob there was an enormous asset and luxury. (Quote by - Sean McManus)
We don't have the luxury to lose. (Quote by - Fatih Terim)
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge. (Quote by - George William Curtis)
All "little" magazines have the luxury of thinking the reader is the same person as their editors. (Quote by - William Whitworth)
I have an almost complete disregard of precedent and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things always have been done. ... I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind. I go for anything new that might improve the past. (Quote by - Clara Barton)
It's become embedded in the culture that everyone is entitled to a little bit of luxury. (Quote by - Candace Corlett)
There is a solemn luxury in grief (Quote by - William Mason)
Luxury! More perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. (Quote by - Hannah More)
Certainly you can argue they have been successful on both fronts. And the demand for luxury sport utility vehicles is increasing. (Quote by - David Garrity)
Luxury makes a man so soft that it is hard to please him, and easy to trouble him; so that his pleasures at last become his burden. luxury is a nice master, hard to be pleased. (Quote by - Sir George Mackenzie)
Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. (Quote by - Woodrow T. Wilson)
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
Service is a prerequisite for anything relating to luxury. That makes it (shopping) sensual and pleasurable. (Quote by - Vera Wang)
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse -- as a luxury befitting a young man. (Quote by - Henri B. Stendhal)
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world. (Quote by - Juvenal)
For all their luxury was doing good (Quote by - Sir Samuel Garth)
The demographic shift to older, wealthier consumers is also driving strong growth in the luxury segments, especially entry-level luxury products. (Quote by - Dennis DesRosiers)
I know it is more agreeable to walk upon carpets than to lie upon dungeon floors, I know it is pleasant to have all the comforts and luxuries of civilization; but he who cares only for these things is worth no more than a butterfly, contented and thoughtless, upon a morning flower; and who ever thought of rearing a tombstone to a last summer's butterfly? (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
It'll be a big test for our guys, and bring some exposure to our program. It's a luxury to have six quality runners, so if one of them has a bad day, another can step up. (Quote by - Derek Hood)
The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
Fell luxury! more perilous to youth Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains. (Quote by - Hannah More)
Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices (Quote by - Hannah More)
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. (Quote by - Marshall McLuhan)
The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right way. (Quote by - Zac Posen)
Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be! (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. (Quote by - Coco Chanel)
Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury. (Quote by - Coco Chanel)
Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it! (Quote by - Agnetha Faltskog)
We don't have that luxury, if you will. (Quote by - Don Smithburg)
Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions. (Quote by - William Allen White)
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. (Quote by - Charles Kingsley)
I'd like to know how many people are doing without the things many of us consider luxuries. It'd be interesting to see what recipients set their thermostats on. (Quote by - David Keating)
A year ago I had the luxury of being able to project 90 percent of our lineup in the off-season. (Quote by - Frank Chumbley)
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is. (Quote by - Tennessee Williams)
I'm like the most expensive, exotic item on a gourmet menu. People can wonder about the sensuous delights of the dish, but they can't afford such an expensive luxury (Quote by - Anna Kournikova)
On the soft bed of luxury, most kingdoms have expired. (Quote by - Edward Young)
Anger can be an expensive luxury (Quote by - Italian Proverb)
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment (Quote by - Bagehot)
Learn the luxury of doing good (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it. (Quote by - Anthony Trollope)
To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt. (Quote by - Olivia Newton-John)
It is not good for them when they always get luxury watches, sneakers and video game players easily. (Quote by - Wu Canxin)
Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up (Quote by - Orson Welles)
Denzel Washington's career is an enormous luxury. Compare him to Wesley Snipes. (Quote by - Alec Baldwin)
A sumptuous dwelling the rich man hath. And dainty is his repast; but remember that luxury's prodigal hand keeps the furnace of toil in blast. (Quote by - Mary Elizabeth Hewitt)
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Falsely luxurious, will not man awake? (Quote by - James Thomson)
I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it (Quote by - Coco Chanel)
The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure; for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise; luxury, therefore, as it increases our wants, increases our capacity for happiness (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
The Lexus LS 460 was designed to expand on the definition of the full-size luxury sedan as well as the level of innovative technology, especially as it relates to safety. (Quote by - Bob Carter)
A luxury home has to be immaculate, absolutely spotless. (Quote by - Richard Dorn)
Garrick showed Dr. Johnson his fine house, gardens, statues, pictures, etc., at Hampton Court. "Ah! David, David," said the doctor, "these are the things which make a deathbed terrible. (Quote by - John Bate)
The benefit of the pre-season cup is having the luxury to send a 28-man squad to cover all bases. (Quote by - Garry Davidson)
This is very high-end luxury. Everything you could want -- lock and go. (Quote by - Steve Rosenthal)
Boy, I loathe Persian luxury. (Quote by - Horace)
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us. (Quote by - Don Marquis)
That's quite a luxury compared to the days when I was doing research with two people squeezed into one fume hood. (Quote by - David Chen)
Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty. (Quote by - Baron de Montesquieu)
Poverty wants some things, luxury many things, Avarice all things (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
People who spent money on travel and luxury goods are spending more money entertaining themselves at home. (Quote by - Celia Chen)
Being sorry for myself is a luxury I can't afford. (Quote by - Stephen King)
Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: "Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries." (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.)
In no way can sport be considered a luxury object. (Quote by - Pierre de Coubertin)
Worry is a funky luxury when a lot has to be done. (Quote by - Melvin Peebles)
There are no politics in war. Politics is the luxury of the safe-at-home. War is a lottery of survival. (Quote by - John Cory)
Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury -- to me these have always been contemptible. I assume that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Money is another pressure. I'm not complaining, I'm just saying that there's a certain luxury in having no money. I spent ten years in New York not having it, not worrying about it. Suddenly you have it, then you worry, where is it going? Am I doing the right thing with it? (Quote by - Dustin Hoffman)
Morality is a private and costly luxury (Quote by - Henry Brooks Adams)
While we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us. (Quote by - Audre Lorde)
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. (Quote by - Charlie Chaplin)
It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming (Quote by - Garrison Keillor)
We're fortunate that we have that luxury and we're crazy if we don't use it. (Quote by - Randy Raper)
So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. (Quote by - Henry George)
Denim has a luxury feel with added details, updated shapes and a variety of washes. (Quote by - Francine Crocker)
I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars -- it's a luxury I can't afford. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)
It's a luxury to have two fine players. Any one of them can carry you on any given night. (Quote by - Dave Robbins)
It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes. (Quote by - Orson Scott Card)
Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible. (Quote by - Lewis H. Lapham)
It is a luxury to be understood. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone. (Quote by - W. H. Auden)
I always thought I should be treated like a star (Quote by - Madonna)
Luxury really is going to be the next wave for retail. (Quote by - Tracey Gotsis)
Women want certain things in marriage--the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury. (Quote by - Mae West)
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Luxury, so far as it reaches the people, will do good to the race of people; it will strengthen and multiply them. Sir, no nation was ever hurt by luxury; for, as I said before; it can reach but a very few. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it (Quote by - Ted Morgan)
Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt: It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith )
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world. (Quote by - Cesare Pavese)
Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none (Quote by - Doug Larson)
Little countries do not have this luxury of defending themselves. We have to do it before the fact, not after the fact, (Quote by - Charles Taylor)
War destroys men, but luxury destroys mankind; at once corrupts the body and the mind. (Quote by - John Crowne)
My job affords me the luxury of having help. I don't feel exhausted, I feel lucky. (Quote by - Kelly Ripa)
Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when it engrosses all a man's expense, and leaves no ability for such acts of duty and generosity as are required by his situation and fortune. The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas would give bread to a whole family during six months. (Quote by - David Hume)
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
That's a luxury that we're glad to have. Absolutely. That's great for the program, being able to build. (Quote by - Bill Unzicker)
Not working is a luxury, ... I feel fortunate to do the things I want to do. (Quote by - Don Hill)
We're not afforded the luxury of looking past any games. (Quote by - Darcy Tucker)
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries (Quote by - John Lothrop)
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit (Quote by - Edward Abbey)
The public be damned! (on whether the public should be consulted about luxury trains Aug 1918) (Quote by - William Henry Vanderbilt)
Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries. (Quote by - Cher)
We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give (Quote by - Jean De La Fontaine)
Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine. (Quote by - George Bancroft)
When you're not used to comfort and good things to eat, you're intoxicated by them in no time. Truth's only too pleased to leave you. Very little is ever needed for Truth to let go of you. And after all, you're not really very keen to keep hold of it (Quote by - Celine)
To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back. (Quote by - Tom Brown)
If you would abolish avarice, you must abolish its mother, luxury (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
I think we're in a quiet time right now. luxury can be in the fit. (Quote by - Christopher Bailey)
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
I'm not saying it should be a luxury hotel, but we should treat them as worthy of being a person. (Quote by - Vicky Gunderson)
I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a whim. (Quote by - Kylie Minogue)
Avarice and luxury, those pests which have ever been the ruin of every great state. (Quote by - Titus Livy)
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving! (Quote by - George Eliot)
For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life (Quote by - Greenfield)
It is a nice luxury to have both Will and Gavin. They are both big, strong kids who have a huge will to win. (Quote by - Tom Saltzstein)
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies (Quote by - Dean Acheson)
It's such a luxury to have girls like the Novacek girls who can catch the ball in the post and move the way they can. (Quote by - Chris Raso)
We liked the way it looked. It looks like a luxury car. (Quote by - Brittany Campbell)
What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity (Quote by - Anthony Crosland)
A lot of people who have embraced luxury today are first-timers. We are a nouveau country. (Quote by - Tarun Tahiliani)
Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing. (Quote by - Dodie Smith)
The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do (Quote by - Leontyne Price)
On his weary couch Fat luxury, sick of the night's debauch, Lay groaning, fretful at the obtrusive beam That through his lattice peeped derisively. (Quote by - Robert Pollok)
Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self-compassion. (Quote by - George R. Gissing)
