Luxury Quotes

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

Blame, Else, Ourselves

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
Charlie Chaplin

Used, Imagine, Saddest

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Coco Chanel

Poverty, Opposite, Vulgarity

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

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
Coco Chanel

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

Enemy, Within, Folly

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

Dangerous, Point, View

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Poverty, Wants, Avarice

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Literature, Fiction, Necessity

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
George Eliot

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
Enid Bagnold

Marriage, Wedding, Real

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

Human, Spirit, Necessity

To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.
Olivia Newton-John

Home, Hurt, Daughter

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.
Samuel Johnson

Good, Money, Giving

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.
James Madison

Hatred, Pride, Labor

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.
Mariska Hargitay

Good, Feeling, Moment

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

Fashion, Idea, Modern

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

Everything, Paid, Starting

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.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Education, Age, Men

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
Stendhal

Great, Men, Woman

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
Sophocles

Woman, House, Excellence

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

Money, Fragrance

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

Success, Door, Artist

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

Two, Three, Paradise

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

Cannot, Stand, Loathe

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.
Alanis Morissette

Time, Great, Experience

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
Golda Meir

Himself, Pessimism, Allow

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
Jean de La Fontaine

Give, Thought, She

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.
Cat Stevens

Home, Business, Christian

We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.
Christina Aguilera

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