Luxury Quotes - Page 22

• Those who want luxury cars should buy them at market rates and not ... abuse public funds.

  Gideon Gono

  Car, Abuse, Want

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• I am a teller of stories. A weaver of dreams. I can dance, sing, and in the right weather I can stand on my head. I know 7 words of Latin, I have a little magic... and a trick or two. I know the proper way to meet a dragon, I can fight dirty but not fair. I once swallowed thirty oysters in a minute. I am not domestic, I am a luxury and, in that sense, necessary.

  Anthony Minghella

  Dream, Latin, Dirty

  "Fictional character: The Storyteller". TV Series "The Storyteller" ("A Story Short", 1988), www.imdb.com. (1987 - ).

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• Today is a goblet day. The whole heavens have been mingled with exquisite skill to a delicious flavor, and the crystal cup put to every lip. Breathing is like ethereal drinking. It is a luxury simply to exist.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Drinking, Breathing, Skills

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.72

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• The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Work, Law, Competition

  Andrew Carnegie (2014). “The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and His Essay The Gospel of Wealth”, p.278, Courier Corporation

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• Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Spiritual, Self Esteem, Profound

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• We’re in the business of luxury and there’s nothing more luxurious than being good to people, being respectful of them.

  Phoebe Philo

  People, Respectful, Be Good

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• H&M approached us to collaborate, and see if we could translate the dream we created at Lanvin to a wider audience, not just a dress for less. I have said in the past that I would never do a mass-market collection, but what intrigued me was the idea of H&M going luxury rather than Lanvin going public. This has been an exceptional exercise, where two companies at opposite poles can work together because we share the same philosophy of bringing joy and beauty to men and women around the world.

  Alber Elbaz

  Dream, Philosophy, Exercise

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• Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.

  William Hazlitt

  Poverty, Rich, Vain

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1500, Delphi Classics

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• No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully, espy A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

  John Keats

  Dream, Long, Shadow

  John Keats (1818). “Endymion: A Poetic Romance”, p.43

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• Women want certain things in marriage--the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury.

  Mae West

  Women, Titles, Lap

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• Money is another pressure. I'm not complaining, I'm just saying that there's a certain luxury in having no money. I spent ten years in New York not having it, not worrying about it. Suddenly you have it, then you worry, where is it going? Am I doing the right thing with it?

  Dustin Hoffman

  New York, Years, Worry

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• Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.

  Julius Caesar

  Wine, Men, Brave

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• Not many years ago, it was access to information and movement that seemed our greatest luxury; nowadays it’s often freedom from information, the chance to sit still, that feels like the ultimate prize. Stillness is not just an indulgence for those with enough resources – it’s a necessity for anyone who wishes to gather less visible resources.

  Pico Iyer

  Years, Silence, Wish

  Pico Iyer (2014). “The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• I've had the luxury of travel and, in the luxury of travel, I've seen the detriments of poverty and I've gone on to see how easy the cures can be - cures that cost cents to the richest nations in the world.

  Brad Pitt

  Cost, Gone, World

  "Brad Pitt narrates six-hour PBS miniseries". www.today.com. November 1, 2005.

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• I'm like the most expensive, exotic item on a gourmet menu. People can wonder about the sensuous delights of the dish, but they can't afford such an expensive luxury

  Anna Kournikova

  People, Gourmet, Exotic

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• Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.

  Ernest Mandel

  Democracy, Essentials, Socialism

  Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl

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• 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

  Eight, Years, Dressing Up

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• The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane, the illusion of space, but it is space itself as a perceived quantity that becomes the peculiar concern of the sculptor. We may say that for the painter space is a luxury; for the sculptor it is a necessity.

  Herbert Read

  Two, Space, Giving

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• The public be damned! (on whether the public should be consulted about luxury trains Aug 1918

  William Henry Vanderbilt

  Should, Train

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• I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers - because males have got to try and justify their existence.

  Orson Welles

  Sex, Thinking, Bird

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• I think we're in a quiet time right now. luxury can be in the fit.

  Christopher Bailey

  Thinking, Quiet, Fit

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• Insecurity, however, is a luxury on which I never economize.

  Judith Thurman

  Insecurity

  Judith Thurman (2008). “Cleopatra's Nose: 39 Varieties of Desire”, p.177, Macmillan

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• He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Matter, Deny, Indulge

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.227, Courier Corporation

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• Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Accomplish Nothing, Excess, Defeat

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Fried (1965). “A Day of Dedication”, New York : Macmillan [1965]

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• I think it makes small difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All that is an empty glorification left for those who live.

  Euripides

  Differences, Littles, Empty

  "Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion".

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