Luxury Quotes

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?

Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.

Staying in luxury hotels still gives me a kick, especially Oulton Hall in Yorkshire. I'd stay in a hotel for the breakfast and room service.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal.

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

We've got a wood-burning pizza oven in the garden - a luxury, I know, but it's one of the best investments I've ever made.

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

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

It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing.

That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

In my early years, there were a number of experiences that made me decide I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. There were a number of issues I wanted to address. And I wanted to use my career as a platform.

Telephones are a virtual necessity - not a luxury - and the revenues collected by this tax flow into the general fund. But this once temporary tax remains and costs American taxpayers, our small businesses and families almost $6 billion dollars a year.

I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.

Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.

For me, true luxury can be caviar or a day with no meetings, no appointments and no schedule.

We are the last remaining country to allow ourselves two breaks in the season. You just have to look at England, Italy and Spain, they play right through the season. We on the other hand take six weeks off in the winter until the end of January, and that is a luxury.

I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.

Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.

I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.