Luxury Quotes - page 3

With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may have become a luxury that only the poor peoples of this world can afford. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)
The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment and responsibility of the novelist, is that there is no limit to what he may attempt as an executant - no limit to his possible experiments, efforts, discoveries, successes. View quote
Henry James
Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are excluded from the banquet. Plenty revels over the fields; but they are starving in the midst of its abundance: the whole wilderness has blossomed into a garden; but they feel as reptiles that infest it. View quote
Washington Irving
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life. View quote
Susan B. Anthony
An unsatisfied woman requires luxury, but a woman who is in love with a man will lie on a board. View quote
André Maurois
Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
"[The democratization of luxury] means more people are going to get better fashion. And the more people who can have fashion, the better. View quote
Anna Wintour
It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life. View quote
Amy Tan
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it. View quote
Ted Morgan
To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me. (Anchee Min)
It is not expensive to be beautiful. It takes only a little effort to be presentable and beautiful. But it takes some effort. And unfortunately people think of beauty as luxury, beauty as frivolity, ... or extravagance. Beauty is a discipline, beauty is art, is harmony, in the ideological sense and in the theological sense, beauty is God and love made real. And the ultimate reach in this world is beauty. View quote
Imelda Marcos
Broadband and digital services will no longer be a luxury item - a scarce commodity - to be rationed amongst the privileged few. View quote
Mukesh Ambani
[Tyler Perry] has the luxury of not doing the political stuff, which is really where I want to be as a company. View quote
Glenn Beck
Weep on and as thy sorrows flow, I'll taste the luxury of woe. View quote
Thomas Moore
A slab of bread "buttered" with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury. View quote
Jimmy Hoffa
Legionary life is beautiful, not because of riches, partying or the acquisition of luxury, but because of the noble comradeship which binds all Legionaries in a sacred brotherhood of struggle. View quote
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
Athletics is a luxury. View quote
Roger Bannister
On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic temperament which is bent on seeking a perfectly useless afternoon spent in a perfectly useless manner. View quote
Lin Yutang
It would be so nice to have the luxury just to laze. So nice not to have to always get up and get dressed for some occasion. Always having to move from here to there, where everything is scheduled and even having lunch with my kids on their Easter break has to be slotted in. Maybe one day... View quote
Benazir Bhutto
Everybody feels he has a right to a life of luxury - or at least comfort - so there's a lot of frustration and resentment when the dream craps out. (Gregory Benford)
Let us have the luxury of silence. View quote
Jane Austen
I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is pointless and irrationally destructive, and that there is nothing we can do about it. Until everyone is fed, clothed, housed and taught, until human beings have equal leisure to contemplate the overwhelming fact of mortality, we should not (I argued) indulge in the luxury of "privileged despair." View quote
Kenneth Tynan
If laying aside all worldly Greatness and Vain-Glory, I should be ask'd where I thought it was most probable that Men might enjoy true Happiness, I would prefer a small peaceable Society, in which Men, neither envy'd nor esteem'd by Neighbours, should be contented to live upon the Natural Product of the Spot they inhabit, to a vast Multitude abounding in Wealth and Power, that should always be conquering others by their Arms Abroad, and debauching themselves by Foreign Luxury at Home. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
If we want to postulate a deity capable of engineering all the organized complexity in the world, either instantaneously or by guiding evolution, that deity must have been vastly complex in the first place. The creationist, whether a naive Bible-thumper or an educated bishop, simply postulates an already existing being of prodigious intelligence and complexity. If we are going to allow ourselves the luxury of postulating organized complexity without offering an explanation, we might as well make a job of it and simply postulate the existence of life as we know it! View quote
Richard Dawkins