Art Quote by Mrs H O Ward

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.

— Thorstein Veblen

At either end of the social spectrum there lies a leisure class.

— Eric Jay Beck

The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work…

— David Riesman

On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic…

— Lin Yutang

Is it not clear that to give to such women as desire it and can devote themselves to literary and scientific pursuits all the…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

As Western nations became more prosperous, leisure, which had been put off for several centuries in favor of the pursuit of property, the means…

— Allan Bloom

Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in…

— Mary McCarthy

“In short, the five or seven hours a day which each will have at his disposal, after having consecrated several hours to the production…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment.

— Allan Bloom

The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent. This proposition is by…

— Thorstein Veblen

“In the economies of late capitalism leisure displaces labor, consumption displaces production, and commodities become the instruments of leisure, identity, and social relations.”

— John Fiske