Luxury Quotes · Page 20

I have a huge house surrounded by luxury but I've earned it.

— Kell Brook

“Sleep is a luxury. They have nowhere to go to.” –Joseph Dahr.”

— Ray Anyasi

“Luxury cannot be obtained other than by enslaving other people.”

— Leo Tolstoy

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.

— F. Sionil Jose

I grew up thinking of snow as a luxury you visit.

— John Landis

Spirituality isn't a luxury. It's a must.

— Gabrielle Bernstein

We've been sold a concept of joy through advertising. It was somehow sold to us through a Gucci bag or something.

— Kanye West

After a bath, we all love to dry off with a towel. But do we need it to survive? No. It's a…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

I’ve been really blessed to have a lot of romance in my life. It’s like my last luxury.

— Lana Del Rey

“Our sisters and brothers were picked up in public by local commanders for the purpose of sex and luxury and we could…

— M.F. Moonzajer

When young people grow up with fear as the norm, they don't have the luxury to dream.

— Lori Lightfoot

They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.

— Plutarch

The more we count the blessings we have, the less we crave the luxuries we haven't.

— William Arthur Ward

Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.

— Calvin Trillin

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental…

— Dalai Lama

Nowadays you really have to pump out that blockbuster in order to have the luxury of getting a body of work, and…

— Dylan McDermott

Coming from where I come from, I didn't have the luxury of having a trust fund. Or money from generations. Or the…

— Patrick Beverley

With writing, I need a lot of time to sit around and do nothing. But now that I have kids, I just…

— Sofia Coppola

[The Goths'] poverty was incurable; since the most liberal donatives were soon dissipated in wasteful luxury, and the most fertile estates became…

— Edward Gibbon

Heartbreak is a luxury in my opinion. In a lot of places in the world there's no time for that. People are…

— Julia Fox

Pride is not a word or sentiment I can ascribe to anything I have done or do. As far as regret, it…

— Henry Rollins

In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your…

— Tom Robbins

Having a child as a single mother was a crucible - maybe this is true for all parents. I got rid of…

— Anne Lamott

No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is…

— William Ellery Channing

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

Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade. We are selling bread at the price of jewels... Let us take…

— Norman Bethune

The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the…

— Leigh Hunt

Too much of the world's happiness depends on taking from one to satisfy another. To increase my standard of living, someone in…

— Eugene H. Peterson

The gods gave me a father who ruled over me and rid me of any trace of arrogance and showed me that…

— Marcus Aurelius

I think that luxury is to be used when you are in your jeans and your T-shirt and you want to feel…

— Charlize Theron

I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal.

— Vince Cable

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

— Golda Meir

The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

— John Milton

“It feels like such a luxury, sleeping with Peeta again.”

— Suzanne Collins

Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!

— Oscar Wilde

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Another ingredient in a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first!

— Robert A. Heinlein

Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman