Luxury Quotes · Page 24

If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another's.

— O. Henry

The best luxury in the world isn't a diamond ring or a nice house - well, it could be - but it's…

— Margaret Trudeau

For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.

— Andrew Young

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

— Daphne du Maurier

Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs, And luxury the accomplish'd Sofa last.

— William Cowper

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.

— George Gissing

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is…

— Anthony Trollope

When I was in college or working, I had the luxury of writing on whatever subject. Now, I'm in the business, I…

— Anupam Roy

The Dior heritage is so broad. It has a strong presence in the work. So, when people have to define it quickly,…

— Raf Simons

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns…

— Tennessee Williams

My very sassy, older southern sister is very quick to point out that it's a luxury that my daughter gets to come…

— Angela Kinsey

It's such a luxury as an actor to think of your career as something you're choosing for yourself, because so much of…

— Marin Ireland

I've gone to Yaddo many times, I've worked at the Rockefeller Foundation's Center for Scholars and Artists in Bellagio. That these are…

— Jane Hirshfield

I really felt that 'Three's Company' was a gift. When it ended, I had money in the bank and had the luxury…

— Joyce DeWitt

If you put the collections together, whether it's Rick Owens, Alexander Wang, or whomever, sometimes they do streetwear, but they're never called…

— Kerby Jean-Raymond

All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Heaven is totally overrated. It seems boring. Clouds, listening to people play the harp. It should be somewhere you can't wait to…

— Joel Stein

Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or the other or both parties to a marriage contract.…

— Spencer W. Kimball

Humans need Jesus Christ as a necessity and not as a luxury. You may be pleased to have flowers, but you must…

— Joseph Parker

The remaining revenue on the consumption of foreign luxuries to domestic comforts, being collected on our seaboard and frontiers only, and incorporated…

— Thomas Jefferson

After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to…

— Hannah More

The one thing that we wanted to make sure in the pilot [of "Mary and Jane"] is that we could go everywhere.…

— Harry Elfont

But was it wrong to put yourself first? That’s called survival, right? If you’re running for your life, you don’t get the…

— Kelley Armstrong

It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long…

— Jane Campion

I grew up on the beach. It was such a luxury to wake up to the sun and the ocean.

— Gemma Ward

“That's the thing about luxury, darlings. The moment you become accustomed to it, it is no longer a luxury but a necessity.…

— Susan Jane Gilman

Holiness is not the luxury of a few people, but a simple duty for you and me.

— Mother Teresa

“I want to glide in a world of beauty,’ I said. ‘To be carried away into a world of luxurious things.”

— James Lusarde

In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or…

— Brian K. Vaughan

“Luxury items are those things that are mass-produced by a third party and marketed to us to purchase so that we can…

— Celso Cukierkorn

“Beauty might be a gift to our souls from the heavens. Luxury, purchased. But suddenly she understood. There was strength in elegance.”

— Lynn Sheene

My 'Playboy' cover shoot experience was nothing short of a paid luxury vacation.

— Sherlyn Chopra

I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.

— Twyla Tharp

If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries. [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.]

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Luxury is something that makes you feel beautiful. I have a vintage silk kimono that definitely makes me feel beautiful and luxurious.

— Pamela Love

The idea that science is just some luxury that you'll get around to if you can afford it is regressive to any…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

In narrative films, you set up reality, so you can limit the variables. You don't have that luxury with docs.

— Adrian Grenier

Women want certain things in marriage--the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury.

— Mae West