Luxury Quotes

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.

Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.

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

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

As far as luxury goes, about the only thing I do is... I go first class all the way. I live on the road, so when I'm out there, I'm getting the nice hotel suite, I'm getting the luxury car, I'm eating the good food, and I make sure I take care of myself on the road.

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

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

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.

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

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

Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing.

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

Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air.

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

I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.

Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence.

I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity.

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

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

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

Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury of being able to do a studio film and an independent afterwards was fantastic.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

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

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

So, there's like one luxury you take and since we do that, y'know, you're involved with people in suits; business people all the time. But hey, if I sit down on a bar and they leave, good for me.

I think the moment that I'm very proud of is building a business without using animals. And, hopefully, changing people's perception of how you can do luxury fashion.

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

We do not have the luxury of two big oceans protecting us as we have had in the past, for we now have a new kind of enemy who deals with stealthiness. Our ability to protect ourselves is having the information ahead of time so we can thwart the attack.