Luxury Quotes

Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends

The cultivation of compassion is no longer a luxury, but a necessity, if our species is to survive.

Compassion is something really worthwhile. It is not just a religious or spiritual subject, not a matter of ideology. It is not a luxury, it is a necessity.

A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.

Luxury is a word of uncertain signification, and may be taken in a good as in a bad sense

Style is luxury, and luxury is simply what makes you happy.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the luxury of a computer in your own home.

Art is a luxury but also a necessity.

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.

there is ten times more in the world than would maintain all in yet unknown luxury. Yet how much misery there is in our midst; not because there is not enough, but owing to the misdirection of it.

I think it makes small difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All that is an empty glorification left for those who live.

For all fragrances I create, I ask each of my suppliers to deliver and provide the best raw materials. It is my personal quest for excellence and quality to create luxury perfumes.

We've got a wood-burning pizza oven in the garden - a luxury, I know, but it's one of the best investments I've ever made.

Art in America has always been regarded as a luxury.

Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices

We consume luxury. We participate in the image industry in a meaningful way, and we have a look and a background that should be taken on its own terms.

Too many?pass judgement on wartime decisions in the luxury of a peacetime environment.

It's a luxury to have so much time, especially with someone so important and busy. You have to get a feel for the person.

Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge.

They must know but little of mankind who can imagine that, after they have been once seduced by luxury, they can ever renounce it.

My husband travels a lot with his job, so we have a lot of frequent flyer miles so we can hop on a plane with no notice. That's a nice luxury and he is very supportive

I feel lucky that I even have the luxury to write about feeling lonely or feeling confused. When you think about climate change that means that we won't have an Earth to be lonely on.

Our values are not luxuries, but necessities. They are not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.

Will you tell me how to prevent riches from producing luxury? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy, intoxication, extravagance, vice and folly?

The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.

Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.

Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.

Luxury bags make your life more pleasant, make you dream, give you confidence, and show your neighbors you are doing well.

In a world where lifelong employment in the same job is a thing of the past, creativity is not a luxury. It is essential for personal security and fulfillment.

I represent luxury, and that's what I love.

I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a whim.

A glamorous life is quite different to a life of luxury. I don’t need luxury. For years, I was practically broke but I was still very vain and glamorous. And I still am.

You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.

Reading is my greatest luxury.

If we want abusers to change, we will have to require them to give up the luxury of exploitation.

Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the necessities of the many are not sacrificed for the luxuries of the few.

Learning isn't a luxury; it's a stewardship issue

We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.

Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that some of my close friends began treating me with reverence.

Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.

Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.

This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions.

Learn to forgive fully and completely. If you want health, wealth, and happiness, you can't afford the luxury of lugging around all those unforgiven, unforgotten past events. Let them go.

There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.

It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.