A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the LUXURY of an emotion without paying for it.
Oscar Wilde
We act as though comfort and LUXURY were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment
Bagehot
There are no politics in war. Politics is the luxury of the safe-at-home. War is a lottery of survival.
John Cory
Luxury! More perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
Hannah More
To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.
Olivia Newton-John
I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a whim.
Kylie Minogue
I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem
Fitz-Greene Halleck
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
George Eliot
Learn the luxury of doing good
Oliver Goldsmith
There, in her den, lay pompous luxury, Stretch'd out at length; no vice could boast such high And genial victories as she had won; Of which proud trophies there at large were shown, Besides small states and kingdoms ruined Those mighty monarchies that had o'erspread The spacious earth, and stretch'd their conquering arms From pole to pole, by her ensnaring charms Were quite consum'd; there lay imperial Rome, That vanquish'd all the world, by her o'ercome; Fetter'd was th' old Assyrian lion there; The Grecian leopard, and the Persian bear; With others numberless, lamenting by, Examples of the power of luxury.
Thomas May
Avarice and luxury, those pests which have ever been the ruin of every great state.
Titus Livy
Luxury is a word of uncertain signification, and may be taken in a good as in a bad sense
David Hume
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
Cesare Pavese