Luxury Quotes

Another ingredient in a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first!

We will make La Perla a great international brand for beauty and feminine luxury.

Luxury is not a static concept, but it shapes and changes with society. Now somebody who might not have the time to come to one of our boutiques can shop online.

I think the moment that I'm very proud of is building a business without using animals. And, hopefully, changing people's perception of how you can do luxury fashion.

What we call the freedom of the individual is not just the luxury of one intellectual to write what he likes to write but his being a voice which can speak for those who are silent.

Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

Rampant technolgy eliminates luxury, but not by declaring privilege a human right; rather, it does so by both raising the general standard of living and cutting off the possibility of fulfilment.

Fancy that thou deservest to be hangedthou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged ina hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp.

Happy endings are a luxury of fiction

I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal.

I just make what I'm making, and then one day I won't want to make it anymore. I think that's a luxury we should be able to have as people, especially as artists.

Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.

It's not a luxury if you can't do without it!

The spirit of commerce... renders every man willing to live on his own property...& prevents the growth of luxury.

Dullness is a kind of luxury.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. [and therefore not appreciate it fully or be grateful for it every moment.]

In the movie I realized, I had the luxury of getting to see how the other person feels.

[The Goths'] poverty was incurable; since the most liberal donatives were soon dissipated in wasteful luxury, and the most fertile estates became barren in their hands.

I think that luxury has nothing to do with money, and everything to do with beauty.

Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.

The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation.

Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness; but envy gets no reward but vexation.

With a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

Acknowledgement: Understanding and compassion for others and their suffering is the next step. Put yourself in the shoes of people who don't have the luxury of being wasteful.

Insecurity, however, is a luxury on which I never economize.

People who can't be alone have a problem. Loneliness is a luxury for people like me.

What luxury, to be so happy that we can grieve over imaginary lives.

Every innovation makes its appearance as a 'luxury' of the few well-to-do. After industry has become aware of it, the luxury then becomes a 'necessity' for all.

Although I really like the people I travel with, family is just different, and having them around at all times is a really nice thing - and a luxury.

in a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.

Self-pity is the simplest luxury.

Budget the luxuries first.

If you would rise, shun luxury, for luxury lowers and degrades.

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.

I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.

It's when you have friends that you can afford to be lonely. When you know a lot of people, loneliness becomes a luxury. It's only when you're forced to be lonely that it's bad.

The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.

Most people think that I am too optimistic, but my optimism is based on the thought that negative thinking is a luxury that we can't afford.

Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.

It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.

We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.

Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.

Having a kid made me realize, "I have to take care of this kid, but I can't have the luxury of dropping everything in the world and spending every waking moment with him. I've got to work."

In narrative films, you set up reality, so you can limit the variables. You don't have that luxury with docs.

We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It's very materialistic. It's full of desire and luxury goods.

All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.

Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.