Top 100 Quotes About Luxury
#1. It is, he thought, the greatest luxury of our existence, no matter how miserable, that we don't know our allotted span of days.
John Katzenbach
#2. For several people the challenge with the dream isn't bread & butter but the luxury.
Santosh Avvannavar
#3. 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.
Vera Caspary
#4. It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.
Amy Tan
#5. The idea of having no responsibilities except general edification seems like such a luxury now. When I had it, all I wanted to do was hack around on the Web. Now the vast majority of my hours are hacking around on the Web.
Matt Mullenweg
#7. You need to treat your finances as a resource God has provided to fulfill your vision, not a tool to fill your life with luxuries
Myles Munroe
#8. My thoughts were gentle, not so long ago. I no longer have that luxury.
John Speed
#9. Morality is a private and costly luxury.
Henry Adams
#10. Sometimes countries have to go through periods of crises and then rediscover why it's important to be bipartisan and compromise and if you haven't had a deep crisis for a while, you feel like you have the luxury of going on your own way.
Robin Wells
#11. And here we must narrowly watch ourselves, seeing that banquets can scarcely be celebrated blamelessly, for almost always luxury accompanies feasting; and when the body is swallowed up in the delight of refreshing itself, the heart relaxes to empty joys.
Pope Gregory I
#12. 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.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#13. We do not have the luxury of despair right now. There is too much at stake, for too many people.
Robert Jensen
#14. Grief isn't a luxury; it's an appropriate response to loss. You don't just will it away. If you allow it to run its course, it will fade with time, but if you ignore it or pretend it doesn't exist, it only gets worse.
Richard Paul Evans
#15. 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 ...
Francis Kurkdjian
#16. You won't always have the luxury of a second chance. So be careful with your first one.
Donna Kauffman
#17. We see the pernicious effects of luxury in the ancient Romans, who immediately found themselves poor as soon as this vice got footing among them.
Joseph Addison
#18. Insecurity, however, is a luxury on which I never economize.
Judith Thurman
#19. A big company is like trying to steer a luxury liner.
Chris Hardwick
#20. I'm not... I'm not without a heart,' he heard Sophia say, her chin raised, eyes straight ahead. 'I'm not. I just don't have the luxury of being soft. I am trying to survive.
Alexandra Bracken
#21. The right thing is a luxury for rich and sheltered people. For the rest of us, the only right thing is staying out of trouble and surviving as best we can.
Susan Ee
#22. People think a watch must weigh a lot to be a luxury. But there's no reason why we should add weight to create value. People have to overcome these notions.
Richard Mille
#23. I'm not in the luxury-goods business. I sell unique objects. I wish I was in luxury goods because then I could just call the factory and say, 'I need 10,000 more of whatever.' But I can't - because then it's not art, it's something else.
Larry Gagosian
#25. Money is another pressure. I'm not complaining, I'm just saying that there's a certain luxury in having no money. I spent ten years in New York not having it, not worrying about it. Suddenly you have it, then you worry, where is it going? Am I doing the right thing with it?
Dustin Hoffman
#26. The new luxury is the luxury of freedom and time. Once you've had a taste of that life, no corner office or fancy chef will be able to drag you back.
Jason Fried
#27. It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
Anthony Trollope
#28. First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries.
P.D. James
#29. Luxury is about pleasing yourself, not dressing for other people
Marc Jacobs
#31. Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before.
Mary Mapes Dodge
#32. We don't sell a watch to give time. We sell a piece of art. We sell an object that represents something to you, you know. It's like you have a nice shirt or a nice jacket. It's like a luxury accessories that can be considered like shoes or like handbags for ladies.
Ricardo Guadalupe
#33. 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.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#35. When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.
Cherrie Moraga
#36. With performing live, you obviously don't get the luxury of another take, but for me, it is all the same.
Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer
#37. I am a mother and mothers don't have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are adults.
Kristin Hannah
#38. I'm so grateful that I had the luxury of transitioning in private. Because when you transition in the public eye, the transition becomes the story.
Laverne Cox
#39. And what's so bad about your being deprived of that? ... All things seem unbearable to people who have become spoilt, who have become soft through a life of luxury, ailing more in the mind than they ever are in the body.
Seneca.
#40. In these xenophobic times, when politicians are stoking everyone's anxiety about threats from abroad, I would argue that engaging with the rest of the world is not only a luxury, in the way that travel is, but actually a moral responsibility.
Andrew Solomon
#41. 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.
Michael Cera
#42. If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#44. 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.
Jodie Foster
#45. It puts things into perspective when we realize that people can live without the luxuries we grow accustomed to having.
Frankie Rayder
#46. Progressivism is a luxury of the one percent.
R. R. Reno
#47. Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.
Edward Abbey
#48. Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide,
First strip off all her equipage of Pride,
Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress,
Or Learning's Luxury or idleness,
Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain
Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
Alexander Pope
#49. The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.
William Morris
#51. Even when I haven't had money, I found money to travel. It's a luxury that's a kind of necessity, I think.
Beth Orton
#52. Luxury is obviously the direction that interests me the most, but there is a lot of confusion between luxury and exhibitionism. For me, the concept of luxury is more traditional, more exclusive, more sophisticated than luxury for the masses.
Giorgio Armani
#53. Nations not possessing great power can indulge in the luxury of
criticism of others; those possessing it have the responsibility of
decision. Faced with a clear challenge, the decision not to use
one's power must be as deliberate as the decision to use it. The con
Richard M. Nixon
#54. Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
Nate Silver
#55. Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities.
Andrew Carnegie
#57. In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.
Patrick Kavanagh
#58. Luxury life is good if everyman living on earth can benefit from it! Otherwise, it is injustice!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#59. But not having cable or the Internet turns out to be cheaper than having them. And nature is still technically free, even if human beings have tried to make access to it expensive. Time and quiet should not be luxury items.
Timothy Ferriss
#60. Tell him that riches will not procure for you a single moment of happiness. Luxury consoles poverty alone, and at that only for a short time, until one becomes accustomed to it.
Alexander Pushkin
#62. I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.
Robert Kagan
#63. Among the numerous luxuries of the table ... coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and the pleasing flow of spirits which it occasions ... is never followed by sadness, languor or debility.
Benjamin Franklin
#64. At any rate, during the few hours when the depressive state itself eased off long enough to permit the luxury of concentration, I had recently filled this vacuum with fairly extensive reading and I had absorbed many fascinating and troubling facts
William Styron
#65. You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.
Paul Theroux
#66. When the founding fathers conceived of this new nation, they understood that the education of its citizens would be essential to the health of their democratic enterprise. Knowledge was not just a luxury; it was essential.
Azar Nafisi
#67. He felt a discrepancy between the growing luxury in which the Divers lived & the need for display which apparently went along with it,
F Scott Fitzgerald
#69. It's a luxury being able to work every day in the streets of Manhattan. It doesn't get much cooler than that. When you move to New York, that's exactly what you dream of. And I'm doing it.
Kelli Giddish
#70. In this day and age, the U.S. and Europe do not have the luxury of focusing solely on a single region.
Susan Rice
#71. Imperialism and exploitation," he wrote, "spheres of influence, trade barriers, unequal distribution of the world's goods, starvation in the midst of plenty, slums with gold coasts next door, poverty supporting luxury: These are marks of an unChristian world.
Sara Miles
#72. Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.
Jesse Eisenberg
#73. If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then empathically we must do what we did with the saints. We must reverence them for being dirty.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#74. 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.
Igor Babailov
#75. You have to be holy in your position as you are, and I have to be holy in the position that God has put me. So it is nothing extraordinary to be holy. Holiness is not the luxury of the few. Holiness is a simple duty for you and for me. We have been created for that.
Mother Teresa
#76. Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
Rem Koolhaas
#78. 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.
Dalai Lama
#79. Buying a luxury on credit often causes a person to eventually resent that luxury because the debt becomes a financial burden. After
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#80. Working on a film is so great because you have the luxury of more time when you're on a movie than when you're on television.
Tamara Tunie
#81. Those who want luxury cars should buy them at market rates and not ... abuse public funds.
Gideon Gono
#82. When it comes to our children, we do not have the luxury of despair. If we rise, they will rise with us every time, no matter how many times we've fallen before. I hope you will remember that the next time you fail ... Remembering that is the most important work as parents we can possibly do.
Cheryl Strayed
#83. I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it, and I hope we all share it ... I am sure that the great glory of poetry in one's heart does not wait on achievement.
Stella Benson
#84. she was once rich and now was not. Perhaps to someone raised in luxury that was like starvation
Mark Lawrence
#85. The grandeur of a profession is ... above all, uniting men: there is only one true luxury, that of human relationships.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#86. The Lexus LS 460 was designed to expand on the definition of the full-size luxury sedan as well as the level of innovative technology, especially as it relates to safety.
Robert M. Carter
#87. Luxury whose quiet swiftness bestowed a sense of power, wielded casually as some lesser god might do.
Raymond Z. Gallun
#88. In films you do a scene, you play around with it and unless you're doing a lot of reshooting, which no one has the luxury to do, you deal with the problem for a day and then you move on. On some level, it never allows you to go very deep into what performing is about.
Willem Dafoe
#89. My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
Ram Kapoor
#90. You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.
Lady Gaga
#91. I love handbags. And shoes. Investing in like a great handbag or a pair of shoes can really make or break an outfit. It's fun to mix and match high street with luxury brands and throw in a bit of vintage as well.
Miranda Kerr
#92. How bold we are. We shy from a flame that licks the tip of our finger for a fraction of a second, and from which we are allowed the luxury of escape. But most of humankind flaunt their disobedience in the face of an eternal fire that engulfs all, and from which there is no escape. Ever.
Laurence B. Brown
#93. But with time I came to understand that seeing a rubbery as a humiliation and an affront is an exmotional luxury.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
#94. America is not a pile of goods, more luxury, more comforts, a better telephone system, a greater number of cars. America is a dream of greater justice and opportunity for the average man and, if we can not obtain it, all our other
achievements amount to nothing.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#95. 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.
Lisa Rinna
#97. The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it's only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
Terence McKenna
#98. The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in the excess of grief.
Mary Shelley
#99. This is why it hurts the way it hurts.
You have too many words in your head. There are too many ways to describe the way you feel. You will never have the luxury of a dull ache.
You must suffer through the intricacy of feeling too much
Iain S. Thomas
#100. Success financially is a measure of creative success, it is the same in all arts.
Stella McCartney
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