Luxury Quotes

You think of luxury when you think of Calvin Klein. He created this lifestyle that's really desirable, so our whole project has that quality of being lasting.

You don't buy luxury to enter a community, but to set yourself apart from others.

It puts things into perspective when we realize that people can live without the luxuries we grow accustomed to having.

In Africa, we have the bush meat trade, which means that, on a very large scale, animals are being killed in the forests and sold in the cities as a luxury food.

The S.S. Sierra was a ten-thousand-ton vessel. Today, lifeboats bigger than the Sierra are found on the Queen Mary and other luxury liners.

in extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury.

I don't have the luxury of time to be unhappy. I have too much to do. I have too much do accomplish. Who has the time to be unhappy?

How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.

The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.

Real luxury is understanding quality, and having the time to enjoy it.

Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.

Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly; nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.

I grew up on the beach. It was such a luxury to wake up to the sun and the ocean.

Morals are a luxury of the rich.

In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.

Men have still not realized that letting women do so much of the work for so little reward makes a man in the house an expensive luxury rather than a necessity.

Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall-porters.

Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

[Tyler Perry] has the luxury of not doing the political stuff, which is really where I want to be as a company.

When you're playing a man, you can look tired and horrible and you still look okay. As a woman, if you're tired, it's terrible. It was such a luxury not having to worry about that.

I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like a luxury.

Everybody feels he has a right to a life of luxury - or at least comfort - so there's a lot of frustration and resentment when the dream craps out.

You can permit yourself any liberty in the opening except the luxury of a passive position.

It's a great luxury for me to be able to write on the films that I direct, and kind of a nice thing to be able to write enough to get credit, which is difficult for a director.

Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, which in others are luxuries merely and in others still are entirely unknown.

Men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries.

Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.

Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious.

When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.

If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.

What unimaginable luxury, never to wrestle with whether or why, never to lie awake nights wondering what if

I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.

An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.

Most of us cannot afford to store a year's supply of luxury items, but find it more practical to store staples that might keep us from starving in case of emergency.

It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.

Obviously, you want to get the best deal possible for yourself, but teams just don't want to spend that money for fear of being in the luxury tax.

Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.

In spite of the poor economy, almost 70 percent of Americans occasionally splurge on luxury items -- like a blanket on a plane, or a peanut.

People always grumbled. If things went well they wanted them to go better. Give them comfort and they wanted luxuries.

The luxury of ostentation affords a much less substantial and solid gratification, than the luxury of comfort, if I may be allowed the expression.

If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and there would be neither vanity nor luxury in such a state.

The past is the luxury of proprietors.

Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury!

I think the cynicism that you have when you've just gone through a break-up is a luxury that you allow yourself for a while.

I like to be in the now, now. Sometimes musicians have to wait for me to be genuine with it. As an actor, I don't have that luxury. You have to make it legit when they say 'action.'

Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.

I didn't work very much when they were young, and I had the luxury to be able to do that. Most people can't.

Noble be man, helpful and good!

If from thy secret bed Of luxury unbidden offspring rise, Let them be kindly welcom'd to the day.

I always say it takes as much preparation and thought to do a small part as a leading part. In some ways, leads are easier because you have the luxury of time to discover the character.