Luxury starts where functionality ends and where the true value is personal and so has no price or reason. — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
If we want abusers to change, we will have to require them to give up the luxury of exploitation. — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I love luxury, I love the high life, and I have to foot the bills - I have received practically nothing from… — Britt Ekland Copy Share Image
Creative industries are more important than the car industry, luxury jewels, and fashion. — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
When you're a mother hen, you sometimes coddle your children. But there are different ways of coddling. Some coddle with luxury, others… — Charlotte Knobloch Copy Share Image
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Scientists who study play, in animals and humans alike, are developing a consensus view that play is something more than a way… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
And here we must narrowly watch ourselves, seeing that banquets can scarcely be celebrated blamelessly, for almost always luxury accompanies feasting; and… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
It's mainly the high-end luxury market now that drives much of the fishing in the sea. It's not feeding the starving millions.… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, actors don't have the luxury of picking their part. You go from one project to the next, and you hope that… — Michael Trucco Copy Share Image
There is always going to be that luxury customer out there. I have clients who buy $10,000 dresses and clients who buy… — Jason Wu Copy Share Image
A film album has these big stars - like a Shah Rukh Khan or a Salman Khan. Independent music videos don't have… — Neha Kakkar Copy Share Image
Gaming is a vice the more dangerous as it is deceitful; and, contrary to every other species of luxury, flatters its votaries… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I had no idea about where I was going. I had no sense of art as anything other than a problem to… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
It is not expensive to be beautiful. It takes only a little effort to be presentable and beautiful. But it takes some… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
Building a house from scratch in the middle of a field is a bit like building a prototype car. As with all… — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
[John] Adams's perception of Europe, and especially France, was clearly different than [Tomas] Jefferson's. For Jefferson, the luxury and sophistication of Europe… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Our values are not luxuries, but necessities. They are not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing. — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
A luxury meal was prairie sandwiches - two slices of bread with wide-open spaces between them. — Chic Murray Copy Share Image
We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness. — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge. — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
The real mistake humans have committed lays in the inability to differentiate between requirements and luxuries. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
This is what you need to do in a luxury business: look for people who will like being there every day. — Steve Wynn Copy Share Image
Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal. — Democritus Copy Share Image
An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
For Net-A-Porter and its customers, luxury means exceptional service, 24-7 - wherever they are, whenever they have time. — Natalie Massenet Copy Share Image
Privacy is not a luxury in America: it is a right - one that we need to defend in the digital realm… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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