The remaining revenue on the consumption of foreign luxuries to domestic comforts, being collected on our seaboard and frontiers only, and incorporated… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For me, luxury isn't just the real thing. It's also fake. Swarovski crystals or real diamonds? It's a game. — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The idea behind our shoes is simple: they are as light as possible, very soft and made from the finest leather we… — Diego Della Valle Copy Share Image
Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise… — Doug Larson Copy Share Image
Perhaps you say, Why are the wicked joyous? Why do they live in luxury? Why do they not toil with me? It… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
At any given time, there are a lot of million-dollar luxury charter boats cruising around the Mentawai Islands finding the most incredible… — Rob Machado Copy Share Image
I think there's an appetite for seriousness. Seriousness is voluptuous, and very few people have allowed themselves the luxury of it. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs.… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge. — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
I had the luxury of working on the script with Andrew [Dominik] for a good year before the film started, so I… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
