Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you…

Let us have the luxury of silence.

— Jane Austen

I had an idea for a technologically advanced luxury watch. I got involved in digital art and neon painting and put on shows of…

— Giorgio Moroder

It's tragic what America has become because there is a great segment of society that now resents luxury and success and achievement by others.

— Robin Leach

“I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold…

— Peter Cook

For me, the melancholy of the late XXth Century is walking late at night by the Mont Blanc pen store and seeing these things…

— William Gibson

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of…

— David R. Brower

Our obsession with material things and lack of self-worth is evident in our need for an abundance of momentary luxuries and must-have amenities that…

— T.I

From my experience, I don't have the luxury to trust anyone.

— Sirivi

Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to…

— Randy Schekman

It is, of course, a luxury to create art and, on top of this, to insist on expressing one's own artistic opinion. Nothing is…

— Max Beckmann

“what a luxury to be alone once more,”

— Virginia Woolf

“There is an inverse relationship between the time spent purchasing luxury items such as cars and clothes and the time spent planning one’s financial…

— Thomas J. Stanley

“Looking out the rain-fogged window at the gray November day, Mary felt almost grateful for the snug warmth of her well-heated chamber. Escape, the…

— Margaret George

“In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.”

— Amit Kalantri

In a world where lifelong employment in the same job is a thing of the past, creativity is not a luxury. It is essential…

— Ken Robinson