Luxury Quotes · Page 24

Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

— Dwight Yoakam

Our values are not luxuries, but necessities. They are not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.

— Jimmy Carter

We’re in the business of luxury and there’s nothing more luxurious than being good to people, being respectful of them.

— Phoebe Philo

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

— Edmund H. North

Although I really like the people I travel with, family is just different, and having them around at all times is a…

— Nick Jonas

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. [and therefore not appreciate it fully or be grateful for…

— Charlie Chaplin

I think that luxury has nothing to do with money, and everything to do with beauty.

— Frances Moore Lappé

I would passionately make the case that the harder the times, the more we need things that aren't just about keeping our…

— Simon Schama

The people are drugged with religion; and that's why the elites - who understand that it is just a ritual, and understand…

— Louis Farrakhan

“They learned to live contently with small things, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy…

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every…

— Barack Obama

The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom,…

— Paul Washer

Instead of saving for someone else's college education, I'm currently saving for a luxury retirement community replete with golf carts and handsome…

— Jen Kirkman

Between my husband, my son and I, we'll always have a bit of both in our lives. We need a bit of…

— Kristin Lehman

For me, style wasn't something that was a luxury or an option, really: It was a necessity. I knew that there were…

— Jagmeet Singh

You're taught that you need to please magazines, to please the fashion elite, and that if you do everything the right way,…

— Olivier Rousteing

We realized that Elite has the potential to really add value to a company like La Perla, due to its relationship to…

— Silvio Scaglia

I read somewhere that if you translated all the gadgets and technology in our houses to make our lives easier and save…

— Herbert

“Luxury as beauty" has nothing to do with a particular place or an object's price tag. It is seeing with eyes for…

— Frances Moore Lappé

Every life is good. This [luxury] doesn't make life. It's a lifestyle. It's a style of life. Style is what you are,…

— Lupe Fiasco

Lukewarm people give money to charity and to the church...so long as it doesn't impinge on their standard of living. Lukewarm people…

— Francis Chan

Well, I don't know anything about television. I'd never done it before. Initially, it was quite daunting to take on so much…

— Diane Kruger

I'm more intrigued by things that I haven't really conceived of yet. I have the luxury of being able to think: "I've…

— Joss Whedon

Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.

— Ernest Mandel

“No one is born with equality. We all come here with varying degrees of opportunities, qualities, strengths, weaknesses, IQ, etc.”

— Brandi L. Bates

Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore

— Anonymous

Privacy is not a luxury in America: it is a right - one that we need to defend in the digital realm…

— Chelsea Manning

I'm a theater actress. I love rehearsal. I could have six weeks of rehearsal and think it's not enough. But on film,…

— Kelly Reilly

I do a lot of decision making before each shoot. It's a luxury to be able to choose what you do.

— Mario Testino

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this…

— Swami Vivekananda

I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.

— David Chipperfield

During the 1990s, luxury became something exclusive and elitist. I think fashion got lost. It forgot about craft and culture.

— Jonathan Anderson

Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.

— Gautama Buddha

A luxury meal was prairie sandwiches - two slices of bread with wide-open spaces between them.

— Chic Murray

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.

— Arthur Erickson

It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness.

— Sheryl Sandberg

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

— George William Curtis

The real mistake humans have committed lays in the inability to differentiate between requirements and luxuries.

— Mata Amritanandamayi