Luxury Quotes

The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right way.

Time is the lens through which dreams are captured.

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That's a danger.

They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.

I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.

I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.

The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

At present I feel like a caged animal, bound up by the luxury, comfort and respectability of my position. I can't get the training that I want without neglecting my duty.

Let us have the luxury of silence.

We do not have the luxury of despair right now. There is too much at stake, for too many people.

Art is not a luxury, but a necessity.

Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.

I don't think we should read for instruction but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class.

Until you have enough money accumulated, sacrifice luxury. Sacrifice TV, time out, and even time with your family and friends.

Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!

I think there is something about luxury - it's not something people need, but it's what they want. It really pulls at their heart.

In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.

George Washington was quite a farmer. He was a farmer, Civil Engineer and gentleman. He made enough at civil engineering to indulge in both the other luxuries.

Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.

If I had the luxury of working as a full time writer, I think you would see novels appearing on a much more regular, and frequent, basis.

O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!

A slab of bread "buttered" with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury.

Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs, And luxury the accomplish'd Sofa last.

We live in a society either scarred by scarcity or spoiled by luxury. We have no idea how much is enough. We don't know when to quit.

School libraries are the foundations of our culture – not luxuries.

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

I drink sherry and wine by myself because I like it and I get the sensuous feeling of indulgence...luxury, bliss, erotic-tinged.

Holiness is not the luxury of a few people, but a simple duty for you and me.

Affordable luxury - these are two words that don't go together.

Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.

A luxury meal was prairie sandwiches - two slices of bread with wide-open spaces between them.

How can I ask people who work for me to travel cheaply if I am traveling in luxury?

There's an instant access to luxury that I think women really appreciate.

Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.

Little countries do not have this luxury of defending themselves. We have to do it before the fact, not after the fact

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.

I'm happy when I can spend every day doing the things that I like to do. That's my luxury.

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost

What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?

Stupidity is a luxury and you will find time and time and time and again that those who are overwhelmingly on the left are those who can afford to be.

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury

The compensation for a death sentence is the knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. A great luxury, but one that is well earned.