Quotes about luxury
luxury knowing feelings
Luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you and prevents you from knowing the world. Paul Theroux
luxury bunch extras
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. Patrick Wilson
luxury able mediums
I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium. Paul McCartney
luxury rich prosperity
Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness. Henri Rousseau
luxury honor halls
Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall-porters. Gilbert K. Chesterton
luxury people respectful
We’re in the business of luxury and there’s nothing more luxurious than being good to people, being respectful of them.
luxury care shallow
But, you see, that's the luxury of being a lout - you get to be selective about when you care and when you don't. The rest of us get stuck when your care goes shallow. Rachel Cohn
luxury empires individual
The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us. Josiah Warren
luxury
God is not a luxury you can't afford; He's a necessity you truly cannot live without! Monica Denise Brown
luxury poverty done
I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without. Peter Cook
luxury comfort add
Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts. Thomas Jefferson
luxury shopping sensual
Service is a prerequisite for anything relating to luxury. That makes it (shopping) sensual and pleasurable. Vera Wang
luxury self pity
Self-pity is the simplest luxury. Rita Mae Brown
luxury wells
He lives well who is well hidden. Rene Descartes
luxury world expensive
The future is the most expensive luxury in the world. Thornton Wilder
luxury today reason
Mathematics is the bold luxury of pure reason, one of the few that remain today. Robert Musil
luxury islands people
At any given time, there are a lot of million-dollar luxury charter boats cruising around the Mentawai Islands finding the most incredible waves. And yet the people on shore are suffering. The whole scene is wrong. As a surf community, we have to do something. Rob Machado
luxury hair guilt
Fancy that thou deservest to be hangedthou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged ina hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp. Thomas Carlyle
luxury surrender articles
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. Thomas Chandler Haliburton
luxury america united-states
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. Vilfredo Pareto
luxury trying normal
I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal. Vince Cable
luxury decision doe
The practical revolutionary will understand Goethe's 'conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action'; in action, one does not always enjoy the luxury of a decision that is consistent both with one's individual conscience and the good of mankind. Saul Alinsky
luxury debt world
It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts. Roger Moore
luxury political focus
In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is therapeutic, nor because it is the universal language, but because it is the persistent focus of our intelligence, aspiration and goodwill. Robert Shaw
luxury goes-on wealth
There's no comparison between the most precious parts of one's personal life and success and wealth. If you lost someone near and dear to you, you can't relate it to any amount of fame, fortune and luxury. You just have to go on living. Robert Plant
luxury hours
Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be! Samuel Taylor Coleridge
luxury rudeness spite
Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life. Samuel Johnson
luxury people suffering
As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.
luxury people despair
We do not have the luxury of despair right now. There is too much at stake, for too many people. Robert Jensen
luxury democracy firsts
Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
luxury play able
The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons. Robert MacNeil
luxury
Wanting to work is a luxury; having to work is not. Steve Guttenberg
luxury house excellence
What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence? Sophocles