Luxury Quotes

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

~ Cesare Pavese

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

You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented.

~ Debasish Mridha

A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word luxury.

~ Alain De Botton

I have never been drawn to luxury. I love the simple things; coffee shops, books, and people who try to understand.

~ R. Y.s. Perez

Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.

~ Amit Kalantri

Principles in a poor is admirable as politeness in a prince.

~ Amit Kalantri

Luxury is the enemy of growth. This is the one thing that I learnt from my father, and I approve of it fully. Abundance is neither good nor healthy for the growth of a child’s mind.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Luxury is the enemy of growth.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Don’t spend your money on luxuries. Save it and secure a safe future. Don’t crave for quick satisfaction.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

To become a better you, be willing to make the needed sacrifice. Don’t spend your money on luxuries.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.

~ Tahir Shah

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

I'd love to wake up to complete silence, white sheets, and the smell of crisp air and roses.

~ Maria Elena

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

What they liked in things they called luxury was only the money behind them, they loved wealth before they loved life.

~ Georges Perec

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

...luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you and prevents you from knowing the world. That is its purpose...

~ Paul Theroux

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

And yet for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. It is no mean happiness, therefore, to be seated in the mean. Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.

~ William Shakespeare

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

~ Michel Foucault

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

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