Luxury Quotes

Pleasure is, after all, a luxury. It's love that's essential.

The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment.

What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air, Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare. Blood stuffed in skins is British Christians' food, And France robs marshes of the croaking brood.

The baskets start at $25 and] the sky's the limit, I've done baskets worth hundreds of dollars. At that price, they are putting in luxury items.

I don't want to indulge myself in the luxury of writing beautiful paragraphs just for the sake of making beautiful writing. That doesn't interest me. I want everything to be essential.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.

Onstage, of course, you have the luxury of rehearsal and discovery and time and comfort, which then turns into terror when you actually have to put it in front of people.

I'm dreaming about making movies for eight weeks, because it's a luxury. But time is money. That's the reality.

Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.

The only luxury is time. The time you get to spend with your family.

You never really know if it's going to happen or not do you but the vision was always for [Karen Walker] to be a global niche luxury product.

I'm a theater actress. I love rehearsal. I could have six weeks of rehearsal and think it's not enough. But on film, you don't get that luxury.

I always thought it was a trap to fit into ideologies, and maybe that's a luxury position, but my work is a reflection of my being here. My being here is not a reflection of an idea.

Schools used to fund-raise for luxuries, like a trip to the water slides. Now, we fund-raise for things we have to have.

My grandmother lives with my mother in a gorgeous house in the San Fernando Valley. I am afforded these luxuries, and I'm very young.

Between my husband, my son and I, we'll always have a bit of both in our lives. We need a bit of both because the cities are so different, and we have that luxury. We're really lucky

"Love is a luxury." "No. Love is an element." An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on.

Suicide was a mortal luxury not afforded to angels.

I'd like to curl up in a ball like Hillary [Clinton]said she would but she is out. And I think we all have to go do that. The fact of the matter is we don't have the luxury of pulling back from this.

Luxury is nice, but creativity is nicer.

A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.

Yeah, that's a luxury to be able to go to a two-hour yoga class! Sometimes I'll just get on the floor and do it for five, ten minutes. Whatever you can get, you just do it.

On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries.

It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity.

I come from a generation where you put the art out and had the luxury to sit back and watch the world deconstruct it, and that was valued. Unfortunately now the work lives in a weird context.

Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.

Education is not a luxury, it is a basic human right.

Women want certain things in marriage--the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury.

If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries. [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.]

It's such a luxury as an actor to think of your career as something you're choosing for yourself, because so much of the time as an actor you're just hoping that exciting projects come your way.

Sufficient sleep, exercise, healthy food, friendship, and peace of mind are necessities, not luxuries.

I work for a big newspaper, and I guess I'm an insider. I don't have the luxury of calling myself a foreign correspondent and just swooping in and then leaving.

I love nice things - I consider Ralph Lauren sheets to be a necessity, not a luxury - but I've known what it's like to be poor.

Principles are sometimes an unaffordable luxury.

What a life, without wine!

I don't think anyone cares whether you're working or not. I have the luxury now of not having to support anyone and not really needing a whole lot of money.

There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

What people sometimes interpret as quirky is my attempt to subvert the concept of luxury by introducing elements that are considered ordinary or commonplace.

God is not a luxury you can't afford; He's a necessity you truly cannot live without!

Holiness is not a luxury for the few; it is not just for some people. It is meant for you and for me and for all of us. It is a simple duty, because if we learn to love, we learn to be holy.

I think if everyone had the luxury to pursue a life of exactly what they love, we would all be ranked as visionaries and brilliant.

I had success early on where I'm able to try to keep it fun, and I don't have to do things just for the sake of making a living, which a lot of my musician friends don't have that luxury of course.

Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing.

Luxury is something that makes you feel beautiful. I have a vintage silk kimono that definitely makes me feel beautiful and luxurious.

If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.

When you shoot a movie so quickly you can't really afford to shoot a bunch of extra footage because you don't have that luxury.

Hell is being trapped in a night-club with the'beautiful people'and forced to live in a'luxury penthouse flat'.

It takes less than a decade for today's luxury to become a universal necessity.

I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium.

Luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you and prevents you from knowing the world.