Quotes About Luxury

Most people don't realize what a financial luxury privacy is. An individual bedroom, time alone, designated workspace: These things cost money. Angelique got to sleep in a shared family room, while probably doing homework on the kitchen table on a refurbished laptop after her brother had his turn.

We live in a society either scarred by scarcity or spoiled by luxury. We have no idea how much is enough. We don't know when to quit.

Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.

Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

Compassion will no longer be seen as a spiritual luxury for a contemplative few; rather it will be viewed as a social necessity for the entire human family.

Just because one is spiritual doesn't mean that one doesn't like crocodile, cashmere. We live in a material world. We still experience these things. It doesn't mean to completely disregard them.

The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.

When you're rich, you don't write checks. Straight cash, homey.

She wanted an Italian sports car - with the sport still in it.

I'm like an expensive menu... you can look but you can't afford!

I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?

If you start to find that kind of luxury as a normal thing, you don't belong in the real world.

A free people, forgetting that it has a soul to be cared for, devotes all its energies to its material advancement. If it makes war, it is to subserve its commercial interests. The citizens copy after the State, and regard wealth, pomp, and luxury as the great goods of life. Such a nation creates wealth rapidly, and distributes it badly.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

You cannot have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices.

Man's highly developed color sense is a biological luxury—inestimably precious to him as an intellectual and spiritual being, but unnecessary to his survival as an animal.

Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes, and toothpaste.

Champagne has the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.

Fortunate boys! No pains have been spared to make your lives emotionally easy_to preserve you, so far as that is possible, from having emotions at all.

Temo che il senso della vita sia estorcere la felicità a se stessi, tutto il resto è una forma di lusso dell'animo, o di miseria, dipende dai casi.

Self-doubt was a luxury, as, perhaps, was the examined life. And yet the examined life, as the adage had it, was the only life worth living.

I have the luxury, I suppose, of being self-employed. But I know what it's like to apply for jobs.

Penury was a matter of hard chairs and mean cushions; prosperity—old money—was a matter of feathers: an absurd reductionist view of it, but at times quite strikingly true.

Tell him that riches will not procure for you a single moment of happiness. Luxury consoles poverty alone, and at that only for a short time, until one becomes accustomed to it.