Quotes of Luxury - somelinesforyou

“ 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. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world. ”

- Cesare Pavese

“ Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge. ”

- St. Gregory the Great

“ Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries. ”

- John L. Motley

“ On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired. ”

- Andrew Young

“ In no way can sport be considered a luxury object. ”

- Pierre de Coubertin

“ Sofas 'twas half a sin to sit upon, So costly were they; carpets, every stitch Of workmanship so rare, they make you wish You could glide o'er them like a golden fish. ”

- Lord Byron

“ One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. ”

- George Eliot

“ 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. ”

- Tennessee Williams

“ There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none. ”

- Doug Larson

“ A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. ”

- Marshall McLuhan

“ A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment. ”

- Walter Bagehot

“ A sumptuous dwelling the rich man hath. And dainty is his repast; but remember that luxury's prodigal hand keeps the furnace of toil in blast. ”

- Mary Elizabeth Hewitt

“ Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions. ”

- William Allen White

“ Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty. ”

- Socrates

“ For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life. ”

- Albert Greenfield

“ I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem. ”

- Fitz Greene Halleck

“ It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury. ”

- Thomas Moore

“ Learn the luxury of doing good. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies. ”

- Charles de Montesquieu

“ Luxury: more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. ”

- Hannah More

“ Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance. ”

- Giambattista Vico

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

- Juvenal

“ Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health. ”

- Martin Tupper

“ Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself. ”

- Golda Meir

“ Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure. ”

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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