Quote by Leo Tolstoy Download Open image ““Luxury cannot be obtained other than by enslaving other people.”” — Leo Tolstoy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“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 advantages of… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
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“Luxury is dangerous to people who have never known it and to whom its temptations are held out too suddenly. [...] Just as the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
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“luxury generally prevails in prosperity, and wastes the blessings of God,” — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Luxury is...to be able to take control of one's life, health, and the pursuit of happiness in a way that is joyful. — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
“That's the thing about luxury, darlings. The moment you become accustomed to it, it is no longer a luxury but a necessity. People forget… — Susan Jane Gilman Copy Share Image
Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious –… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If you only knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that's what… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
