Luxury Quotes - page 2

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. (Oscar Wilde)
Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. View quote
Charles Kingsley
I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand. View quote
Brigitte Bardot
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness. View quote
William Wordsworth
All that stuff with the tabloids is a kind of luxury tax I pay for all the good things I do in my life. View quote
Ethan Hawke
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. View quote
Pablo Picasso
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. View quote
Robert Kagan
Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary. View quote
Karl Marx
I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand. (Tamara Mellon)
Happy endings are a luxury of fiction. View quote
Trudi Canavan
Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and a three-dollar pantyhose that won't run. View quote
Phyllis Diller
Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance. View quote
Giambattista Vico
I've had the luxury of owning my own studio, 24 analogue, 48 digital, endless effects, endless hardcore gear, that I don't have to rent, I don't get stuck with the bills, it's all mine. View quote
Billy Sherwood
Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste? View quote
David R. Brower
But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people. View quote
Patricia Clarkson
As far as luxury goes, about the only thing I do is... I go first class all the way. I live on the road, so when I'm out there, I'm getting the nice hotel suite, I'm getting the luxury car, I'm eating the good food, and I make sure I take care of myself on the road. View quote
Trish Stratus
Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but do not produce. View quote
Vilfredo Pareto
Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night? View quote
Graham Greene
If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you. (Paulo Coelho)
We can do without any article of luxury we have never had; but when once obtained, it is not in human natur' to surrender it voluntarily. View quote
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
The luxury of ostentation affords a much less substantial and solid gratification, than the luxury of comfort, if I may be allowed the expression. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multimillionaires who wallow in filth and luxury, and the millions of working people who constantly live on the verge of pauperism. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
It is, of course, a luxury to create art and, on top of this, to insist on expressing one's own artistic opinion. Nothing is more luxurious than this. It is a game and a good game, at least for me; one of the few games which make life, difficult and depressing as it is sometimes, a little more interesting. View quote
Max Beckmann