Luxury Quotes - Page 12

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

School libraries are the foundations of our culture – not luxuries.

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

Yes, letter writing is antiquated - though there remain a few renegades who still so treasure the luxury of contemplating their lives in letters that they would rather write than call.

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

You have comfort. You don't have luxury. And don't tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.

Boy, I loathe Persian luxury.

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?

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

Time is the lens through which dreams are captured.

Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries

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

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

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

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

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market. In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.

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

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

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

I told myself that I would not come back to women's fashion until I felt I had something new to say. I feel that fashion has become too serious and that the actual customer's needs have not really been addressed. Fashion needs to make one happy. It is a luxury and should enhance one's quality of life.

Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

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

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

Art is not a luxury, but a necessity.