Luxury Quotes - page 21

There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer. (Seneca)
Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury. View quote
Joseph Addison
If He goes lost, then we go lost. This is why the salvation of the Universe is also our salvation, why solidarity among men is no longer a tenderhearted luxury but a deep necessity and self-preservation, as much a necessity as, in an army under fire, the salvation of your comrade-in-arms. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
How can I ask people who work for me to travel cheaply if I am traveling in luxury? View quote
Ingvar Kamprad
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are. View quote
Anaïs Nin
The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you're playing. View quote
Ron Perlman
Working out is not a luxury, it's a necessity. View quote
Marisa Miller
What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul; - and what the sufferings of poverty, disappointment, despair - to the anguish of an afflicted one! View quote
Ann Radcliffe
The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. View quote
Cyril Connolly
Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time. View quote
Jodi Picoult
Gardening is a luxury occupation an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and ugly days He is one of the few people left in this distressful world to carry on the tradition of elegance and charm. A useless member of society, considered in terms of economics, he must not be denied his rightful place. He deserves to share it, however humbly, with the painter and poet. (Vita Sackville-West)
And even sadness was also something for rich people, for people who could afford it, for people who didn't have anything better to do. Sadness was a luxury. View quote
Clarice Lispector
I think the reason why a lot of young people are such screw ups... is oftentimes they didn't have the luxury I had of forming important relationships and opinions and life experiences before having success. View quote
George Clooney
Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven. View quote
Randy Alcorn
I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal. View quote
Vince Cable
I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers -- because males have got to try and justify their existence. View quote
Orson Welles
Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. View quote
Hannah More
I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog. View quote
Ingrid Newkirk
Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby. View quote
Paul-Jean Toulet
Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury; the time spent engaged in it is not time that could be better spent in more formal educational pursuits. Play is a necessity. View quote
Kay Redfield Jamison
He had no special hobbies, but he needed luxury in general of a kind, and especially the luxury of getting things in a hurry, his theory being that everything comes to the man who won't wait. (Ada Leverson)
Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed. View quote
Iggy Azalea
Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury. View quote
Johan Huizinga
As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it. View quote
Ezra Koenig
In Africa, we have the bush meat trade, which means that, on a very large scale, animals are being killed in the forests and sold in the cities as a luxury food. View quote
Frans de Waal