Book Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

Our obsession with material things and lack of self-worth is evident in our need for an abundance of momentary luxuries and must-have amenities that…

— T.I

Men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries.

— Henry David Thoreau

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.

— John Lothrop Motley

Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts.

— Thomas Jefferson

First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries.

— P. D. James

Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities.

— Andrew Carnegie

Never economize on the small luxuries of life. Drinking fine wine and eating chocolate won't solve your problems - but they won't hurt either.

— Ernie J Zelinski

Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

We are developing new types of destitutes-the automobileless, the yachtless, the Newportcottageless. The subtlest luxuries of today reaches very high in the social scale...…

— Walter Weyl

One of the few luxuries left is travel, and the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.

— Andre Balazs

“She indulged in melancholy, that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries...”

— Charles Dickens

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

— William Ellery Channing