100 Quotes About Luxury

There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read–unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over. E. Nesbit

It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't afford to play – the product of idleness and immoral ease. In the grip of that feeling it isn't life we pursue, but the point and purpose of life – its facility, its use. William H. Gass

In today's life, Luxury is Time and Space. Harmon Okinyo

This mind is continuous and ever taxing, Sleep is an endeavoring luxury for the carnivorous mind Gerald Mills

Now I don’t know how many people like to drive a Beetle at that kind of speed (on purpose) but I know I’d rather go down Brickmaker’s Kloof on a bicycle with no brakes! Driving any car at that speed in anything other than an expensive German luxury car on a long, straight autobahn is enough of a risk (let alone the risk of hitting anything) — but if you try that with a Beetle and add a light crosswind, factor in some rubber peeling off your tire, and you’ll more than likely find yourself dancing alone in a dark corner without any music. Christina Engela

To me bathtubs are the epitome of luxury. Either you have no money to own one or you have no time to use one. Akilnathan Logeswaran

If you cannot afford yourself any luxuries for the time being, at least offer yourself the one priceless luxury no one can take away from you — your time Lauren Klarfeld

Having books standing on a shelf in a room is like having completely different worlds at the ready, waiting to be explored. J.F Hermann

I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christian theology is a pretty villainous creature. I think that one of the things that male patriarchal figure has done is, allowed under it's, his church, his wing, all kinds of corruptions and villainies to grow and fester. In the name of that God terrible wars have been waged, in the name of that God terrible sexism has been allowed to spread. There are children being born all across this world that don't have enough food to eat because that God, at least his church, tells the mothers and fathers that they must procreate at all costs, and to prevent procreation with a condom is in contravention with his laws. Now, I don't believe that God exists. I think that God is creation of men, by men, and for men. What has happened over the many centuries now, the better part of two thousand in fact, is that that God has been slowly and steadily accruing power. His church has been accruing power, and the men who run that church, and they are all men, are not about to give it up. If they give it up, they give up luxury, they give up comfort. Clive Barker

Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment. Orson Scott Card

What is the point of all the money in the world if you don't have the freedom to do the things you love? Anamika Mishra

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. Robert A. Heinlein

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good. Samuel Johnson

This trespass had not come without a price. Living un-lives, material comforts and luxuries became superfluous, connection to the outside world undesirable, and power their only sustenance. But they had paid gladly, considering this “humanity” a small price for the power they now wielded; power that would sustain them far beyond the lives of mere humans and perhaps, in time, even grant them immortality. J. Valor

It’s unfair to see managers buying brand new cars for themselves when the salaries of their workers still remain unpaid! Good leaders are not selfish thinkers! Israelmore Ayivor

Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries should we buy for ourselves and our children when others are dying for lack of bread? Ronald J. Sider

When you stop living for luxuries you understand the real meaning of life. Edhi Sahab

The idea of luxury, even the word "luxury, " was important to Arabella. Luxury meant something that was by definition overpriced, but was so nice, so lovely, in itself that you did not mind, in fact was so lovely that the expensiveness became part of the point, part of the distinction between the people who could not afford a thing and the select few who not only could, but also understood the desirability of paying so much for it. Arabella knew that there were thoughtlessly rich people who could afford everything; she didn't see herself as one of them but instead as one of an elite who both knew what money meant and could afford the things they wanted; and the knowledge of what money meant gave the drama of high prices a special piquancy. She loved expensive things because she knew what their expensiveness meant. She had a complete understanding of the signifiers. John Lanchester

Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills a function in the life of the social organism. He sets an example of luxury that awakens in the multitude a consciousness of new needs and gives industry the incentive to fulfill them. Ludwig Von Mises

From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort and pleasure Michel Foucault

A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty JeanJacques Rousseau

It's scented! Your wedding invitations are scented?"" It's meant to be lavender."" No, Dex - it's money. It smells of money. David Nicholls

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. Randy Alcorn

A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note, " he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor. Anne Rice

It seems to make little sense how a person's self-worth or self-confidence should be wrapped up in how much their jacket is worth or what shoe they are wearing. Does a person's round or pointy-tip shoe really say anything of value about who a person is? It seems that true luxury lies in a freedom from needing that red-bottom shoe, that handbag with all the tiny initials and big price tag, or the latest trend to know that a person truly matters. True luxury seems to lie in the separation of confidence and materialism. Authentic luxury flourishes from the untying of self-worth from popular opinion. . Ann Brasco

Drama does not just walk into our lives. Either we create it, invite it, or associate with it. Brandi L. Bates

When my son speaks of playing sports, I've always told him: playing on the team is great, but aspire to be the guy who owns the team. I've always told my son: most of the guys on the team will end up bankrupt with bum knees, but not the guy who owns that franchise. Brandi L. Bates

I was recently living more comfortably surrounded by secrets... Like dozens of luxurious satiny pillows, they were embracing me from all directions into safe lulling warmth, thus isolating me from the sharp dead-cold edges of the truth hiding behind their endearingly smooth textures and tender soothing colours. Secrets could be so irresistibly beautiful... Simona Panova

Lack of luxury is not a reason to push others to poverty. ~ Michael A. van Doorn, Odyssey of a Heart, Home of a Soul Angelica Hopes

Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly. Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Don't judge me. Ethics and morality no longer exist in our world. It's a luxury of the past, afforded only to those who had a future. T.M. Williams

Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast; Custards for supper, and an endless host Of syllabubs and jellies and mincepies, And other such ladylike luxuries. Percy Bysshe Shelley

It took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger. Sara Sheridan

Someone should do a study of the human brain and how quickly it can adjust to luxury. Tina Fey

Understand: I don't ever want to be equal to any other being. I always want to be greater...in all things, in all circumstances. Brandi L. Bates

The reason why many people remain on the bottom is because they play to 'not lose', as opposed to playing to win at all costs. Brandi L. Bates

No one is born with equality. We all come here with varying degrees of opportunities, qualities, strengths, weaknesses, IQ, etc. Brandi L. Bates

I don't want to be around people who accept me as is, in my unrefined state of becoming. I consistently want people around me who push and encourage me to be my ultimate best, who bring out the inner diamonds. I want to be around those intellectual giants who extract the gold within me, those who force me to read, to attend classes, seminars, conferences, and who steep me in an environment of perpetual growth and upward mobility. Not trying to be funny, but I've learned that I simply cannot afford to invest too much time around mediocrity. It's contagious. Brandi L. Bates

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

All spiritual leaders who live in luxury cannot enter God's Paradise in Heaven. Repent or Perish. Felix Wantang

If a good system of agriculture, unrivaled manufacturing skill, a capacity to produce whatever can contribute to either convenience or luxury, schools established in every village for teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic, the general practice of hospitality and charity amongst each other, and above all, a treatment of the female sex full of confidence, respect, and delicacy, are among the signs which denote a civilized people — then the Hindus are not inferior to the nations of Europe, and if civilization is to become an article of trade between England and India, I am convinced that England will gain by the import cargo. Thomas Munro

Everyone's life changes when they meet their Obi-Wan & their Yoda, or their Morpheus & their Oracle; those who help remove the veil. Brandi L. Bates

Be selective in your battles... Brandi L. Bates

Where would tourism be without a little luxury and a taste of night life? There were several cities on Deanna, all moderate in size, but the largest was the capital, Atro City. For the connoisseur of fast-foods, Albrechts’ famous hotdogs and coldcats were sold fresh from his stall (Albrecht’s Takeaways) on Lupini Square. For the sake of his own mental health he had temporarily removed Hot Stuff Blend from the menu. The city was home to Atro City University, which taught everything from algebra and make-up application to advanced stamp collecting; and it was also home to the planet-famous bounty hunter — Beck the Badfeller. Beck was a legend in his own lifetime. If Deanna had any folklore, then Beck the Badfeller was one of its main features. He was the local version of Robin Hood, the Davy Crockett of Deanna. The Local rumor mill had it he was so good he could find the missing day in a leap year. Once, so the story goes, he even found a missing sock. Christina Engela

Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive. Julianna Baggott

Luxury life is good if everyman living on earth can benefit from it! Otherwise, it is injustice! Mehmet Murat Ildan

I thought of my mother as Queen Christina, cool and sad, eyes trained on some distant horizon. That was where she belonged, in furs and palaces of rare treasures, fireplaces large enough to roast a reindeer, ships of Swedish maple. Janet Fitch

In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow. And in an age of distraction, nothing is so luxurious as paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is so urgent as sitting still. Pico Iyer

The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical efficiency, but his consumption also undergoes a specialisation as regards the quality of the goods consumed. He consumes freely and of the best, in food, drink, narcotics, shelter, services, ornaments, apparel, weapons and accoutrements, amusements, amulets, and idols or divinities. Thorstein Veblen

The ceremonial differentiation of the dietary is best seen in the use of intoxicating beverages and narcotics. If these articles of consumption are costly, they are felt to be noble and honorific. Therefore the base classes, primarily the women, practice an enforced continence with respect to these stimulants, except in countries where they are obtainable at a very low cost. From archaic times down through all the length of the patriarchal regime it has been the office of the women to prepare and administer these luxuries, and it has been the perquisite of the men of gentle birth and breeding to consume them. Drunkenness and the other pathological consequences of the free use of stimulants therefore tend in their turn to become honorific, as being a mark, at the second remove, of the superior status of those who are able to afford the indulgence. Infirmities induced by over-indulgence are among some peoples freely recognised as manly attributes. It has even happened that the name for certain diseased conditions of the body arising from such an origin has passed into everyday speech as a synonym for "noble" or "gentle". It is only at a relatively early stage of culture that the symptoms of expensive vice are conventionally accepted as marks of a superior status, and so tend to become virtues and command the deference of the community; but the reputability that attaches to certain expensive vices long retains so much of its force as to appreciably lesson the disapprobation visited upon the men of the wealthy or noble class for any excessive indulgence. The same invidious distinction adds force to the current disapproval of any indulgence of this kind on the part of women, minors, and inferiors. This invidious traditional distinction has not lost its force even among the more advanced peoples of today. Where the example set by the leisure class retains its imperative force in the regulation of the conventionalities, it is observable that the women still in great measure practise the same traditional continence with regard to stimulants. Thorstein Veblen

Secrets, ” Kohler finally said, “are a luxury we can no longer afford. Dan Brown

I want to glide in a world of beauty, ’ I said. ‘To be carried away into a world of luxurious things. James Lusarde

You know? Ain’t it ironic how we live our entire lives without the luxury of time, only to spend an eternity in death. Jason Medina

Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves. There are Greek troops, to be sure, in Persian service – but how different is their cause from ours! They will be fighting for pay – and not much of at that; we, on the contrary, shall fight for Greece, and our hearts will be in it. As for our foreign troops – Thracians, Paeonians, Illyrians, Agrianes – they are the best and stoutest soldiers in Europe, and they will find as their opponents the slackest and softest of the tribes of Asia. And what, finally, of the two men in supreme command? You have Alexander, they – Darius! . Alexander The Great

It's not a luxury if you can't do without it! Elizabeth Jane Howard

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. Coco Chanel

So what should we do with our last few days?”“ I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you, ” Peete replies.“ Come on, then, ” I say, pulling him into my room. It feels like a luxury, sleeping with Peeta again. I didn’t realize until now how starved I’ve been for human closeness. For the feel of him beside me in the darkness. Suzanne Collins

[L]uxury always comes at someone else’s expense. One of the many advantages of civilization is that one doesn’t generally have to see that, if one doesn’t wish. You’re free to enjoy its benefits without troubling your conscience. (Ancillary Justice) Unknown

It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization. M.L. Stedman

Money's easy to make if it's money you want. But with few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration. John Steinbeck

I have everything I could ever want here, Adelina, ” he finally says. “You’ve handed me what feels like the world’s riches, a palace, a life of luxury.” He draws closer. “I get to be at your side. What more do I need? Marie Lu

Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade. We are selling bread at the price of jewels... Let us take the profit, the private economic profit, out of medicine, and purify our profession of rapacious individualism... Let us say to the people not 'How much have you got?' but 'How best can we serve you? Norman Bethune

I could take a shower every day in my own bathroom. I almost didn’t know what to do with such luxury. Other than, you know, not stink. Brandon Sanderson

The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life--we went soft, we lost our edge. Frank Herbert

My head aches, my eyes burn, my arms and legs have given up, and my face in the mirror has a grayish cast. The bed, across the room, calls in its unmistakable lover's croon, Come to me, come, only I can make you truly happy, oh, how happy I'll make you, don't resist, remember how you moan with pleasure the instant we touch..... Laura Acosta Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Word 'Classy' is not for commons. Try to be classy! Anamika Mishra

Just because you're a luxury brand doesn't mean you have to have an attitude. Angela Ahrendts

It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir, or a page-turning piece of fiction. Kelli OHara

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. Hannah Arendt

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. Edsger Dijkstra

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. Christy Mathewson

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury. Thomas Moore

I'm a late riser by my family's standards. Sleeping is a luxury because since I was young, I woke up very early to go ice-skating. So I'm really not a morning girl. Vera Wang

We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people. Christina Aguilera

Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury. Jesse Eisenberg

I try to ensure my daughters are not spoilt. They are very aware of how lucky they are and appreciate it. We have had some lean years, so they know it's not all about luxury, travel, and hotels. They are grounded, and I'm grateful for that. David Harewood

We spent a lot of time trend forecasting and collaborating on ways to design a fresh line of fashion-forward, affordable luxury. Kourtney Kardashian

There is always going to be that luxury customer out there. I have clients who buy $10, 000 dresses and clients who buy $60 dresses. It's not so much about the money. Design is a mentality. Jason Wu

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring. Enid Bagnold

Being raised in a developing country opened my eyes to so much I cannot tolerate. In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it's not a priority in the agendas of many leaders. Shakira

Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels. Ingvar Kamprad

Creative industries are more important than the car industry, luxury jewels, and fashion. JeanMichel Jarre

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

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge. George William Curtis