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Luxury Quotes
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Give us the luxuries of life and we'll dispense with the necessaries.

Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
 share this Luxury saying   Berthold Auerbach

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.

I know it is more agreeable to walk upon carpets than to lie upon dungeon floors, I know it is pleasant to have all the comforts and luxuries of civilization; but he who cares only for these things is worth no more than a butterfly, contented and thoughtless, upon a morning flower; and who ever thought of rearing a tombstone to a last summer's butterfly?

Sofas 'twas half a sin to sit upon, So costly were they; carpets, every stitch Of workmanship so rare, they make you wish You could glide o'er them like a golden fish.
 share this Luxury saying   Lord Byron

Luxury, that alluring pest with fair forehead, which, yielding always to the will of the body, throws a deadening influence over the senses, and weakens the limbs more than the drugs of Circe's cup.
 share this Luxury saying   Claudian

The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure; for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise; luxury, therefore, as it increases our wants, increases our capacity for happiness

Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when it engrosses all a man's expense, and leaves no ability for such acts of duty and generosity as are required by his situation and fortune. The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas would give bread to a whole family during six months.
 share this Luxury saying   David Hume

Luxury, so far as it reaches the people, will do good to the race of people; it will strengthen and multiply them. Sir, no nation was ever hurt by luxury; for, as I said before; it can reach but a very few.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury--you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.

On his weary couch Fat Luxury, sick of the night's debauch, Lay groaning, fretful at the obtrusive beam That through his lattice peeped derisively.
 share this Luxury saying   Robert Pollok

By luxury we condemn ourselves to greater torments than have yet been invented by anger or revenge, or inflicted by the greatest tyrants upon the worst of men.
 share this Luxury saying   Sir William

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
 share this Luxury saying   Henry David

On the soft bed of luxury, most kingdoms have expired.

For all their luxury was doing good
 share this Luxury saying   Sir Samuel Garth

There is a solemn luxury in grief
 share this Luxury saying   William Mason

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem
 share this Luxury saying   Fitz-Greene Halleck

Luxury! More perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

Denzel Washington's career is an enormous luxury. Compare him to Wesley Snipes.
 share this Luxury saying   Alec Baldwin

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