Luxury Quotes
I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.
If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another's.
Luxury to me is not about buying expensive things; it's about living in a way where you appreciate things.
Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
We’re in the business of luxury and there’s nothing more luxurious than being good to people, being respectful of them.
A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.
Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.
Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type?
Returning from work feeling inspired, safe, fulfilled and grateful is a natural human right to which we are all entitled and not a modern luxury that only a few lucky ones are able to find.
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.
I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.
Fragrance is an incredibly intimate thing. It can evoke very specific thoughts or memories and is a little different for each person who wears it. I also think it's the most accessible luxury.
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.
We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth.
Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security.
America does not have the luxury of withdrawing from the world, our security, and our prosperity, and our values demand that we remain engaged and involved in -- often distant places.
Prayer, even more than eating or sleeping, is not a luxury but a necessity, and we are only fully human when we remember this and arrange our life accordingly.
Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.
Luxury is feeling unrushed. It is designing a life that allows you to do what you want with high leverage, with many options, all while feeling unrushed.
Those who want luxury cars should buy them at market rates and not ... abuse public funds.
Yes, letter writing is antiquated - though there remain a few renegades who still so treasure the luxury of contemplating their lives in letters that they would rather write than call.
Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.
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.
I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch.
No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.
When you get into a hotel room, you lock the door, and you know there is a secrecy, there is a luxury, there is fantasy. There is comfort. There is reassurance.
No matter how many luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you choose, you'll never be totally happy.
