Quotes about Luxury

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury. Votes: 6

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies. Votes: 4

Luxury is a state of mind. Votes: 4

Luxury is more deadly than any foe. Votes: 4

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things Votes: 4

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. Votes: 4

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. Votes: 4

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. Votes: 4

Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness. Votes: 4

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us. Votes: 4

Luxury is experiencing reality Votes: 3

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies. Votes: 3

Luxury destroys more efficiently than war. Votes: 3

Luxury is nice, but creativity is nicer. Votes: 3

O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree! Votes: 3

Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary. Votes: 3

Luxury Living Low Thinking Simple Living High Thinking Votes: 3

Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends Votes: 3

Luxury is about pleasing yourself, not dressing for other people Votes: 3

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. Votes: 3

Luxury is an obstacle, and so is the fatness of the body. Votes: 3

Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress. Votes: 3

Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant. Votes: 3

Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world. Votes: 3

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are. Votes: 3

Luxury, like a minimum wage, is a relationship; it changes as we change. Votes: 3

Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity Votes: 3

Luxury goods are the only area in which it is possible to make luxury margins. Votes: 3

Luxury is the opportunity to experience quality, be it a place, a person or an object. Votes: 3

Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed. Votes: 3

Luxury and Ostentation usually make me feel antsy, like I'm going to get a case of Gout Votes: 3

Luxury whose quiet swiftness bestowed a sense of power, wielded casually as some lesser god might do. Votes: 3

Luxury is a word of uncertain signification, and may be taken in a good as in a bad sense Votes: 3

Luxury starts where functionality ends and where the true value is personal and so has no price or reason. Votes: 3

Luxury must have that over-the-top attitude but be effortless at the same time, that's what feels chic to me. Votes: 3

Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved. Votes: 3

Luxury bags make your life more pleasant, make you dream, give you confidence, and show your neighbors you are doing well. Votes: 3

The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right way. Votes: 3

Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor. Votes: 3

Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor. Votes: 3

Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed. Votes: 3

Luxury is...to be able to take control of one's life, health, and the pursuit of happiness in a way that is joyful. Votes: 3

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail. Votes: 3

The only time when i realize that i use a car, which is a "Luxury", is when i go to the fuel station to refuel it. Votes: 3

I use Rodin Luxury Face Oil at night, and it keeps my skin hydrated and refreshed for the day - not tired from all the makeup. Votes: 3

My music is a luxury. Votes: 2

Reading is my greatest luxury. Votes: 2

Morality is a private and costly luxury. Votes: 2

I have a kind of objective luxury about my career. Votes: 2

I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity. Votes: 2

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things. Votes: 2

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. Votes: 2

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself. Votes: 2

I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand. Votes: 2

No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering substance more benign. Votes: 2

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge. Votes: 2

I think the older I get, the more I realize that the ultimate luxury is time. Votes: 2

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world. Votes: 2

The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons. Votes: 2

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries. Votes: 2

For me, true luxury can be caviar or a day with no meetings, no appointments and no schedule. Votes: 2

It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England. Votes: 2

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. Votes: 2

Luxury to me is not about buying expensive things; it's about living in a way where you appreciate things. Votes: 2

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up. Votes: 2

It's always been a luxury to be able to hop a plane to Paris, to Venice, to the Grand Canyon. Votes: 2

I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore. Votes: 2

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. Votes: 2

Real luxury is having the time to read endless stories in bed with my children. And I get that all the time. I'm so blessed. Votes: 2

I've had the luxury of playing golf around the world, and I've spent a lot of time evaluating how to play all kinds of courses. Votes: 2

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile. Votes: 2

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. Votes: 2

It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh. Votes: 2

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is. Votes: 2

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good. Votes: 2

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it. Votes: 2

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man. Votes: 2

The old 7 Series, the E38, was an elegant car, an evolution of the classic BMW look. But it wasn't penetrating the luxury market as we desired. It just didn't have the presence to be noticed. Votes: 2

When I think about creating abundance, it's not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility. It is about taking that which was scarce and making it abundant. Votes: 2

Shabiha' is a difficult word to translate into English. It comes from the word Syrians used to describe the luxury Mercedes favored by the Assad family's operatives that the enforcers of the regime used to move money, smuggle weapons and intimidate opponents. Votes: 2

Luxury is anything that feels special. I mean, it can be a moment, it can be a walk on the beach, it could be a kiss from your child, or it could be a beautiful picture frame, a special fragrance. I think luxury doesn't necessarily have to mean expensive. Votes: 2

I think that in our part of the world, Scandinavia, we are one of the pioneers of showing that gastronomy can be something - high gastronomy can be something very, very present and doesn't have to involve, you know, what is perceived as the normal luxury items that belong in a high gastronomy restaurant. Votes: 2

I was the first in my family to go to college, and I waitressed all the way through, using my earnings to pay for a bachelor's degree first and then a master's. I resented classmates who didn't have to work real jobs, the ones who had the luxury of taking unpaid internships that would eventually position them for high-paying careers. Votes: 2

I don't think it ever does any harm in any business to feel that there is someone there who cares about it. If you look at any business, fashion being the most obvious, the aura, or the reality of the designer, is part of what creates it. It's true in luxury goods stores and in good food stores. It leaves a palpable sense that someone cares. Votes: 2

Athletics is a luxury. Votes: 0

Poetry is not a luxury. Votes: 0

Books are my one luxury. Votes: 0

Boy, I loathe Persian luxury. Votes: 0

Self-pity is the simplest luxury. Votes: 0

The luxury of one's own opinion. Votes: 0

The greatest luxury is being free. Votes: 0

Dullness is a kind of luxury. Votes: 0

It's a luxury to be understood. Votes: 0

Giving back is the new luxury, Votes: 0

Principles are sometimes an unaffordable luxury. Votes: 0

Lamborghini is refinement, luxury and perfection. Votes: 0

I like simplicity; I don't need luxury. Votes: 0

Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury. Votes: 0

Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty. Votes: 0

Pessimism is the luxury of the powerful. Votes: 0

Happy endings are a luxury of fiction Votes: 0

Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty. Votes: 0

The past is the luxury of proprietors. Votes: 0

And learn the luxury of doing good. Votes: 0

Let us have the luxury of silence. Votes: 0

Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be! Votes: 0

Men are a luxury, not a necessity. Votes: 0

He tried the luxury of doing good. Votes: 0

Morals are a luxury of the rich. Votes: 0

God is a luxury I can't afford. Votes: 0

It is a luxury to be understood. Votes: 0

Fashion is not a luxury, it's a right Votes: 0

Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes. Votes: 0

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. Votes: 0

Learning isn't a luxury; it's a stewardship issue Votes: 0

Art is not a luxury, but a necessity. Votes: 0

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. Votes: 0

Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives. Votes: 0

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. Votes: 0

I represent luxury, and that's what I love. Votes: 0

Doubt remains a luxury I won't do without. Votes: 0

Fitness is a luxury when you are busy! Votes: 0

Art is a luxury but also a necessity. Votes: 0

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it. Votes: 0

Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury. Votes: 0

…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted. Votes: 0

Suicide was a mortal luxury not afforded to angels. Votes: 0

All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste. Votes: 0

in extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury. Votes: 0

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things. Votes: 0

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford. Votes: 0

You can't afford the luxury of a negative thought Votes: 0

I don't have the luxury of doing things privately. Votes: 0

I've always been that contemptible thing, a luxury communist. Votes: 0

Working out is not a luxury, it's a necessity. Votes: 0

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things. Votes: 0

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race. Votes: 0

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Votes: 0

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury. Votes: 0

Every luxury was lavished on you - atheism, breastfeeding, circumcision. Votes: 0

Pleasure is, after all, a luxury. It's love that's essential. Votes: 0

Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury. Votes: 0

Insecurity, however, is a luxury on which I never economize. Votes: 0

Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press. Votes: 0

Today's political climate does not allow the luxury of apathy. Votes: 0

Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure Votes: 0

For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life. Votes: 0

The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment. Votes: 0

God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without. Votes: 0

Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury. Votes: 0

art in America has always been regarded as a luxury ... Votes: 0

From the elitism of luxury to the democracy of beauty. Votes: 0

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving! Votes: 0

Being sorry for myself is a luxury I can't afford. Votes: 0

As theater artists, it's a great luxury to have time. Votes: 0

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired. Votes: 0

For youth, sexual love is whim; for the aged, luxury. Votes: 0

I think the law changes, which is a nice luxury. Votes: 0

In no way can sport be considered a luxury object. Votes: 0

The one luxury that I'll never give up is men. Votes: 0

The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity. Votes: 0

It's not a luxury if you can't do without it! Votes: 0

The future is the most expensive luxury in the world. Votes: 0

In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage. Votes: 0

I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand. Votes: 0

Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty. Votes: 0

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health. Votes: 0

Affordable luxury - these are two words that don't go together. Votes: 0

If you would rise, shun luxury, for luxury lowers and degrades. Votes: 0

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury. Votes: 0

Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need. Votes: 0

Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class. Votes: 0

I grew up thinking of snow as a luxury you visit. Votes: 0

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing. Votes: 0

You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance. Votes: 0

Forget luxury; as a great company you have to keep evolving. Votes: 0

Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility. Votes: 0

Style is luxury, and luxury is simply what makes you happy. Votes: 0

Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams. Votes: 0

Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread. Votes: 0

When you dance you can enjoy the luxury of being you. Votes: 0

Education is not a luxury, it is a basic human right. Votes: 0

the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed. Votes: 0

This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare. Votes: 0

A big company is like trying to steer a luxury liner. Votes: 0

Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have. Votes: 0

Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner. Votes: 0

Are you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford, Jack? Votes: 0

Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time. Votes: 0

God has blessed me to see the luxury side of things. Votes: 0

Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us. Votes: 0

Wanting to work is a luxury; having to work is not. Votes: 0

Thu luxury of one class is counterbalanced by the indigence of another. Votes: 0

Real luxury is understanding quality, and having the time to enjoy it. Votes: 0

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence? Votes: 0

There's an instant access to luxury that I think women really appreciate. Votes: 0

Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious. Votes: 0

Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury! Votes: 0

Denzel Washington's career is an enormous luxury. Compare him to Wesley Snipes. Votes: 0

All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods. Votes: 0

Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment. Votes: 0

The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety. Votes: 0

Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities! Votes: 0

Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge. Votes: 0

To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me. Votes: 0

Worry is a funky luxury when a lot has to be done. Votes: 0

The goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury. Votes: 0

What is bad about luxury as long as you can afford it? Votes: 0

Get used to a rough life, for luxury does not last forever. Votes: 0

A luxury liner is really just a bad play surrounded by water. Votes: 0

It's a real luxury to be able to develop with your character. Votes: 0

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. Votes: 0

Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels. Votes: 0

I don't love the word luxury because it feels Bougy to me. Votes: 0

No one but an adventurous traveler can know the luxury of sleep. Votes: 0

I came from a communist country where there are no luxury cars. Votes: 0

What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity. Votes: 0

Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs, And luxury the accomplish'd Sofa last. Votes: 0

We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people. Votes: 0

If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury. Votes: 0

I'm learning Cuban. It's like Spanish, but with fewer words for luxury items. Votes: 0

But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds. Votes: 0

I believe that style is the only real luxury,that is really desirable Votes: 0

Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be. Votes: 0

Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall-porters. Votes: 0

A room to myself is a luxury that I do not always enjoy. Votes: 0

Education is not a luxury in modern American society-it is essential for survival. Votes: 0

The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere. Votes: 0

I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal. Votes: 0

If you want to be rich, don't allow yourself the luxury of excuses. Votes: 0

The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect. Votes: 0

What luxury, to be so happy that we can grieve over imaginary lives. Votes: 0

Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone. Votes: 0

Too many?pass judgement on wartime decisions in the luxury of a peacetime environment. Votes: 0

Just because you're a luxury brand doesn't mean you have to have an attitude. Votes: 0

Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state. Votes: 0

But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people. Votes: 0

The only luxury is time. The time you get to spend with your family. Votes: 0

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful. Votes: 0

We will make La Perla a great international brand for beauty and feminine luxury. Votes: 0

The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me. Votes: 0

The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it. Votes: 0

It takes less than a decade for today's luxury to become a universal necessity. Votes: 0

I've got the luxury to tailor make the songs so I can sing them. Votes: 0

Belief in mysteries, any manner of mysteries, is the only lasting luxury in life. Votes: 0

...Delay, says Dr. Manner, is a luxury which people with right-now cancers cannot afford. Votes: 0

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life. Votes: 0

Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart. Votes: 0

It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes. Votes: 0

Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby. Votes: 0

Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich. Votes: 0

The greatest luxury of having money should be not having to worry about it. Votes: 0

A true luxury is a reward for investing in and developing a real asset. Votes: 0

A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride. Votes: 0

In the luxury segment, if we just focused on fuel economy, that wouldn't be enough. Votes: 0

I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem. Votes: 0

Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion. Votes: 0

EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST. Votes: 0

Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons. Votes: 0

I love everything from old-school cars to whatever the latest muscle or luxury vehicles are. Votes: 0

The public be damned! (on whether the public should be consulted about luxury trains Aug 1918 Votes: 0

Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative. Votes: 0

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. Votes: 0

There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation. Votes: 0

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. Votes: 0

Wealthier countries have the luxury of entertaining fears the rest of the world cannot afford. Votes: 0

what a luxury it was for people to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted Votes: 0

I enjoyed recording at home. I had the luxury of being able to re-record things. Votes: 0

For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury. Votes: 0

The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts. Votes: 0

There was no way to know that certainty would one day become a luxury, too. Votes: 0

It took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger. Votes: 0

If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism. Votes: 0

The fact is that modern life has deprived us of life's one great luxury: time. Votes: 0

Oh! what a luxury it is to weep, / And find in tears a sad relief! Votes: 0

Mathematics is the bold luxury of pure reason, one of the few that remain today. Votes: 0

I think we're in a quiet time right now. luxury can be in the fit. Votes: 0

The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it's through time. Votes: 0

You don't buy luxury to enter a community, but to set yourself apart from others. Votes: 0

It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization. Votes: 0

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility. Votes: 0

All spiritual leaders who live in luxury cannot enter God's Paradise in Heaven. Repent or Perish. Votes: 0

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. Votes: 0

High self-esteem isn't a luxury. It's a necessity for anyone who has important goals to achieve. Votes: 0

Diesel is the only example of a casualwear or sportswear company that became a luxury brand. Votes: 0

You can permit yourself any liberty in the opening except the luxury of a passive position. Votes: 0

Those who want luxury cars should buy them at market rates and not ... abuse public funds. Votes: 0

Fashion is about affordable luxury ... To succeed, designers need to be affordable, wearable, accessible, and aspirational. Votes: 0

We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford. Votes: 0

Pain does not create a long-lasting memory, but the memory of luxury exerts itself for ever. Votes: 0

Service is a prerequisite for anything relating to luxury. That makes it (shopping) sensual and pleasurable. Votes: 0

When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation. Votes: 0

What luxury would I take to a desert island? A mirror. It's true. I'd miss me. Votes: 0

My job affords me the luxury of having help. I don't feel exhausted, I feel lucky. Votes: 0

I think that luxury has nothing to do with money, and everything to do with beauty. Votes: 0

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. Votes: 0

A luxury meal was prairie sandwiches - two slices of bread with wide-open spaces between them. Votes: 0

People who can't be alone have a problem. Loneliness is a luxury for people like me. Votes: 0

Cruelty is the luxury of those who have nothing to do, like drugs or racing stables. Votes: 0

Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. Votes: 0

To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury.... Votes: 0

God is not a luxury you can't afford; He's a necessity you truly cannot live without! Votes: 0

Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food. Votes: 0

Ministers must read. We are required to read not as a luxury but as a necessity. Votes: 0

There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast. Votes: 0

Beauty has been stolen from the people and is being sold back to them as luxury. Votes: 0

Hell is being trapped in a night-club with the'beautiful people'and forced to live in a'luxury penthouse flat'. Votes: 0

Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism. Votes: 0

We were so poor; the ultimate luxury in our house at the time was ashtrays without advertisements. Votes: 0

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury. Votes: 0

The problem with people nowadays is that a 'necessity' is any luxury your neighbor happens to have. Votes: 0

All "little" magazines have the luxury of thinking the reader is the same person as their editors Votes: 0

Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury. Votes: 0

When a silhouette or shape is as beautiful as it is functional and relevant, that's true luxury. Votes: 0

We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress. Votes: 0

The hardest thing about being famous? Just working I guess. Just work. The famous part's the luxury. Votes: 0

Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war. Votes: 0

Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones. Votes: 0

Holiness is not the luxury of a few people, but a simple duty for you and me. Votes: 0

I cannot place the luxury of thought towards tomorrow as I am consumed by living for today. Votes: 0

I have the luxury of getting up quite late, so I hardly ever set an alarm clock. Votes: 0

To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt. Votes: 0

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it. Votes: 0

Art is not entertainment. Art is not luxury goods. Art is culture. It is you and me. Votes: 0

Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization. Votes: 0

It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning. Votes: 0

I'm a woman in a man's job and I don't have the luxury of being an ass, Votes: 0

For Net-A-Porter and its customers, luxury means exceptional service, 24-7 - wherever they are, whenever they have time. Votes: 0

Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions. Votes: 0

I have always had a separate walk-in wardrobe, so I have the luxury of a fairly sparse bedroom. Votes: 0

The cultivation of compassion is no longer a luxury, but a necessity, if our species is to survive. Votes: 0

Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely. Votes: 0

It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard. Votes: 0

Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art. Votes: 0

In the movie I realized, I had the luxury of getting to see how the other person feels. Votes: 0

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. Votes: 0

Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes. Votes: 0

Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death. Votes: 0

I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods. Votes: 0

If from thy secret bed Of luxury unbidden offspring rise, Let them be kindly welcom'd to the day. Votes: 0

How can I ask people who work for me to travel cheaply if I am traveling in luxury? Votes: 0

What unimaginable luxury, never to wrestle with whether or why, never to lie awake nights wondering what if Votes: 0

The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue. Votes: 0

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it. Votes: 0

Long as I live large, life will be luxury, Ladies in Lamborghinis...love is like luck to me. Votes: 0

It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness. Votes: 0

Existentialism is possible only in a world where God is dead or a luxury, and where Christianity is dead. Votes: 0

Love is a luxury.""No. Love is an element."An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on. Votes: 0

With a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration. Votes: 0

Holiness is not a luxury, it's a necessity. If you're not holy, you'll never make it to Heaven [Heb. 12:14]. Votes: 0

Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness. Votes: 0

a preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical ... Votes: 0

I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium. Votes: 0

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands. Votes: 0

I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side. Votes: 0

The spirit of commerce... renders every man willing to live on his own property...& prevents the growth of luxury. Votes: 0

When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty. Votes: 0

I'm dreaming about making movies for eight weeks, because it's a luxury. But time is money. That's the reality. Votes: 0

Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do. Votes: 0

It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing. Votes: 0

It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts. Votes: 0

I'm happy when I can spend every day doing the things that I like to do. That's my luxury. Votes: 0

You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class. Votes: 0

They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men. Votes: 0

If we want abusers to change, we will have to require them to give up the luxury of exploitation. Votes: 0

If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another's. Votes: 0

Women want certain things in marriage--the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury. Votes: 0

It is a pity that you students aren't fully aware of the luxury and abundance in which you live. Votes: 0

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly. Votes: 0

We're in the business of luxury and there's nothing more luxurious than being good to people, being respectful of them. Votes: 0

In narrative films, you set up reality, so you can limit the variables. You don't have that luxury with docs. Votes: 0

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us. Votes: 0

I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch. Votes: 0

I had the luxury of falling down a few times and picking myself up as a stronger version of myself. Votes: 0

I grew up on the beach. It was such a luxury to wake up to the sun and the ocean. Votes: 0

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Votes: 0

If you start to find that kind of luxury as a normal thing, you don't belong in the real world. Votes: 0

No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century. Votes: 0

Until you have enough money accumulated, sacrifice luxury. Sacrifice TV, time out, and even time with your family and friends. Votes: 0

Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore Votes: 0

My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature. Votes: 0

The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation. Votes: 0

We all have the luxury of looking out for ourselves. Leaders also have the honor of looking out for others. Votes: 0

Has the luxury of not doing the political stuff, which is really where I want to be as a company. Votes: 0

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine. Votes: 0

With performing live, you obviously don't get the luxury of another take, but for me, it is all the same. Votes: 0

A slab of bread "buttered" with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury. Votes: 0

Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly; nothing in this world can be long enjoyed. Votes: 0

An unsatisfied woman requires luxury, but a woman who is in love with a man will lie on a board. Votes: 0

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, and paradise is when you have none. Votes: 0

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do. Votes: 0

Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences. Votes: 0

We do not have the luxury of despair right now. There is too much at stake, for too many people. Votes: 0

The risk of any great luxury brand that has its history in the past is that it can get dusty. Votes: 0

I’ve been really blessed to have a lot of romance in my life. It’s like my last luxury. Votes: 0

Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow... Votes: 0

It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity. Votes: 0

Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment. Votes: 0

I do a lot of decision making before each shoot. It's a luxury to be able to choose what you do. Votes: 0

It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life. Votes: 0

But with time I came to understand that seeing a rubbery as a humiliation and an affront is an exmotional luxury. Votes: 0

It is a luxury to learn; but the luxury of learning is not to be compared with the luxury of teaching. Votes: 0

Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly. Votes: 0

Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the luxury of a computer in your own home. Votes: 0

When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury Votes: 0

When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence. Votes: 0

Some people think happiness is a luxury, but its a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life. Votes: 0

I think there's an appetite for seriousness. Seriousness is voluptuous, and very few people have allowed themselves the luxury of it. Votes: 0

Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it's a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life. Votes: 0

Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. Votes: 0

A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter. Votes: 0

Even when I haven't had money, I found money to travel. It's a luxury that's a kind of necessity, I think. Votes: 0

Small businesses already struggle to compete with big businesses that enjoy the luxury of a tax code filled with corporate loopholes. Votes: 0

I can't afford the luxury of music while I'm flying an airplane. I have to pay attention to what I'm doing. Votes: 0

As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing. Votes: 0

The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt. Votes: 0

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man. Votes: 0

Creating abundance [is] not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility. Votes: 0

Time is my biggest luxury. Finding time to do things outside of fashion, which I think for a designer is incredibly important. Votes: 0

A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life. Votes: 0

My personal philosophy is that you do art to experience emotion that you don't have the luxury of experiencing in real life. Votes: 0

As the art world changes, artists have more and more responsibility. You don't have a lot of luxury to be super secluded. Votes: 0

Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. Votes: 0

I don't read my books, so I don't allow myself the dangerous luxury of toying with the idea of doing things differently. Votes: 0

I drink sherry and wine by myself because I like it and I get the sensuous feeling of indulgence...luxury, bliss, erotic-tinged. Votes: 0

In this day and age, the U.S. and Europe do not have the luxury of focusing solely on a single region. Votes: 0

It is easy to understand why the rabble dislike cats. A cat is beautiful; it suggests ideas of luxury, cleanliness, voluptuous pleasures. Votes: 0

Little countries do not have this luxury of defending themselves. We have to do it before the fact, not after the fact Votes: 0

The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you're playing. Votes: 0

Altering your perspective can provide you the luxury of seeing things for what they are, not what you wish them to be. Votes: 0

Feel body as luxury-- as a bird feels when shooting through the air, and as a child does always -- is health Votes: 0

It is a luxury to put our interests first. It is an honor to put the interests of others before our own. Votes: 0

I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a whim. Votes: 0

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity. Votes: 0

We no longer have the luxury of spending our energy on anything that does not lead us and our families to Christ. Votes: 0

The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world Votes: 0

As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it. Votes: 0

Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world. Votes: 0

We no longer have the luxury of spending our energy on anything that does not lead us and our families to Christ. Votes: 0

The reality of an actor's life is that we do not always have the luxury of choice. We take what comes to us. Votes: 0

Committing to a lifetime of wellness is not a luxury-it's a necessity. You'll never have enough time; you have to make the time. Votes: 0

To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it's not a priority in the agendas of many leaders. Votes: 0

I have a luxury of people coming to see me whether I play for the crowd or not. I don't take that lightly. Votes: 0

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give. Votes: 0

Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum. Votes: 0

I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs Votes: 0

[The democratization of luxury] means more people are going to get better fashion. And the more people who can have fashion, the better. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

They must know but little of mankind who can imagine that, after they have been once seduced by luxury, they can ever renounce it. Votes: 0

I think there is something about luxury - it's not something people need, but it's what they want. It really pulls at their heart. Votes: 0

Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated. Votes: 0

The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That's a danger. Votes: 0

As a child, I was spoilt by my parents as an only son. They indulged my every whim, and I grew up in luxury. Votes: 0

In the long term, there are many factors that will help the luxury market, the creation of new wealth and the Asian tourist boom Votes: 0

All that stuff with the tabloids is a kind of luxury tax I pay for all the good things I do in my life. Votes: 0

When you shoot a movie so quickly you can't really afford to shoot a bunch of extra footage because you don't have that luxury. Votes: 0

Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm not so in love with material things that I'll do anything for money. That allows me the luxury of doing things of value. Votes: 0

The best thing about art is that it is the one luxury in life that can be enjoyed by everyone. And it lasts forever. Votes: 0

If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery. Votes: 0

I think the cynicism that you have when you've just gone through a break-up is a luxury that you allow yourself for a while. Votes: 0

There was no luxury. I never got on an airplane until I was 18. We drove everywhere. My dad was like, "Waste not, want not." Votes: 0

I think if everyone had the luxury to pursue a life of exactly what they love, we would all be ranked as visionaries and brilliant. Votes: 0

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life. Votes: 0

We don't have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it's important to be with our family and friends. Votes: 0

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. [and therefore not appreciate it fully or be grateful for it every moment.] Votes: 0

I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home. Votes: 0

I don't have the luxury of being "just a girl" because I learned how to tie a tie and my windsor is better than most Votes: 0

It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters. Votes: 0

The biggest luxury is a job in which I get to live in New York, travel the world, and work with so many incredible people. Votes: 0

I have the luxury of being a little boy... To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting. Votes: 0

I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off. Votes: 0

When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director. Votes: 0

Far from being a "luxury for the rich," organic farming may turn out to be a necessity not just for the poor, but for everyone. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

For my lifestyle, I believe in living 10 times below my means. As a result of that, I have the luxury of working only when I'm inspired. Votes: 0

I want to spread the message in the U.S. that there are good philanthropists in China, and not all are crazy spenders on luxury goods. Votes: 0

I once had money to burn. I'd fly to Barbados for the weekend. I lived in a twenty-two-room mansion and had my pick of four luxury cars. Votes: 0

This is the first time in history that we've had this level of luxury, so we have a new opportunity to rethink the way we approach God. Votes: 0

The compensation for a death sentence is the knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. A great luxury, but one that is well earned. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We live in a society either scarred by scarcity or spoiled by luxury. We have no idea how much is enough. We don't know when to quit. Votes: 0

To me, the nicest luxury would be to have a room where I could keep all my books in one place - and have space for more. Votes: 0

I can remember on the first day on 'Chatroom,' it was just one scene for the whole day, which was a really nice luxury to have. Votes: 0

I always felt that with luxury came cruelty. I do my best to live a happy, prosperous life, but I don't indulge in a lot of luxury. Votes: 0

I love nice things - I consider Ralph Lauren sheets to be a necessity, not a luxury - but I've known what it's like to be poor. Votes: 0

I'm very well off but I can stay with normal people. I can do a super-luxury life, but I can do a very normal life and I'm not scared. Votes: 0

I don't have the luxury of time to be unhappy. I have too much to do. I have too much do accomplish. Who has the time to be unhappy? Votes: 0

I still live in an apartment in Paris with my wife. No, we don't have a yacht, but we do have a house in Spain; that is my luxury. Votes: 0

The luxury we have when we do a series is that we go through a long journey, and it keeps a lot of information and things to be revealed. Votes: 0

To me, it's always a luxury to be able to work with the best of the best because they make it easier for you to do what you do. Votes: 0