Luxury Quotes
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world
Cesare Pavese
Sell not your liberty to gratify your luxury
Unknown
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.
Lord Byron
Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt: It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.
Oliver Goldsmith
Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Fell luxury! more perilous to youth Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains.
Hannah More
Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices.
Hannah More
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
Hannah More
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.
Robert Pollok
The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right way.
Zac Posen
What think you, if he were conveyed to bed, Wrapped in sweet clothes, rings put upon his fingers, A most delicious banquet by his bed, And brave attendants near him when he wakes, Would not the beggar then forget himself?
William Shakespeare
Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?
James Thomson
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.
Henry David Thoreau
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
Charles De Montesquieu
