Luxury Quotes · Page 11

The past is the luxury of proprietors.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity.

— Jil Sander

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

— Edward Abbey

There was no way to know that certainty would one day become a luxury, too.

— Therese Anne Fowler

Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes.

— Walter Kirn

Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

— Jay Samit

Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

— Nate Silver

“Tears are a luxury we can’t afford to waste.”

— Melody Manful

I don't read my books, so I don't allow myself the dangerous luxury of toying with the idea of doing things differently.

— Neel Mukherjee

I'm not a good storyteller - I much prefer to be with people who are chatty, to have the luxury of listening.

— Conor McPherson

With a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

— John Steinbeck

Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.

— Sammy Davis, Jr

No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering substance more benign.

— James Norwood Pratt

Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non…

— Seneca the Younger

To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury…

— Richard Hofstadter

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

— William Arthur Ward

“And you don’t like my saying that, but here’s the truth: luxury always comes at someone else’s expense. One of the many…

— Ann Leckie

The flight of most members of a profession to the high empyrean, where they can work peacefully on purely scientific problems, isolated…

— Gerald Holton

Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are excluded from the banquet. Plenty revels over the fields; but theyare…

— Washington Irving

'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and…

— LeRoy Neiman

In a series, you have the luxury of time to establish the character and build a rhythm. In a TV movie, you've…

— Joe Penny

I hate luxury. I exercise moderation…It will be easy to forget your vision and purpose one you have fine clothes, fast horses…

— Genghis Khan

For a long time, I was afraid to be alone. I had to learn how to be alone. And there are still…

— Jack Nicholson

The aspirations of most people--security, pleasure, leisure, meaningful work, creative and intellectual pursuits--are to be supported. These desires and dreams are not…

— Irena Klepfisz

Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase…

— Alain de Botton

Simply to have all the necessities of life and three meals a day will not bring happiness. Happiness is hidden in the…

— Edward M Hays

Investing in [children] is not a national luxury or a national choice. It's a national necessity. If the foundation of your house…

— Marian Wright Edelman

I think people are much more concerned about money now. There aren't the big advances of the past. You feel the sense…

— Sandra Cisneros

Most men are far younger when they have their children and they're building their careers. If they are older they probably don't…

— Jennifer Grant

This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It is a necessity,…

— Paul Brunton

Generations of women have sacrificed their lives to become their mothers. But we do not have that luxury any more. The world…

— Erica Jong

Prison life taught him how little one can get along with, and what extraordinary spiritual freedom and peace such simplification can bring.…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Rules are for people with the luxury of time.”

— Renee Carlino

Moog embodies a sound luxury like no other.

— Mike Dean

From the elitism of luxury to the democracy of beauty.

— Giorgio Armani

I came from a communist country where there are no luxury cars.

— Robert Herjavec

Being sorry for myself is a luxury I can't afford.

— Stephen King

I've always been that contemptible thing, a luxury communist.

— Bruce Robinson

The luxury market and its consumer are very flexible and reactive.

— Marco Bizzarri

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

— Henry Ward Beecher