Luxury Quotes - Page 3

• But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.

  Patricia Clarkson

  People, Film, Great People

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• I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life.

  Linda Vester

  Thinking, Numbers, Anchors

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• It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England.

  Terence Stamp

  America, Stuff, England

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• To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

  Helen Keller

  Nature, Garden, Earth

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• It is a luxury to be understood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Understanding, Understood

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1826-1832”

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• 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

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Circles, Want, Pleasure

  Oliver Goldsmith (1835). “His Works”, p.30

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• But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Book, Simple, Simple Things

  Daphne Du Maurier (1980). “The Rebecca notebook and other memories”, Book Sales

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• Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Republic, Poverty, Ends

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• Luxury goods are the only area in which it is possible to make luxury margins.

  Bernard Arnault

  Goods, Margins, Areas

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• I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Fashion, One Thing, Loathe

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• We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.

  Arthur Erickson

  Art, Easy, Treats

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• By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

  James Madison

  Pride, Vanity, Two Sides

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• Athletics is a luxury.

  Roger Bannister

  Athlete, Athletic, Athletics

  "Breaking the Four-Minute Mile". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 7, 2002.

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• Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

  H. Rap Brown

  Class, Structure

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• Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

  Edmund H. North

  Emotional, Painful, Wartime

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• But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.

  Bea Arthur

  Nice, Work Out, Stage

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• Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.

  Oscar Wilde

  Extravagance, Rich, Poor

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.187, Wordsworth Editions

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• Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Tyrants, Republic, Poverty

  "The Spirit of the Laws" by Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, Book VII: Consequences of the Different Principles of the Three Governments with Respect to Sumptuary Laws, Luxury and the Condition of Women, Ch. 4: Of Sumptuary Laws in a Monarchy, 1748.

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• Boy, I loathe Persian luxury.

  Horace

  Boys, Persian, Loathe

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• I don't have the luxury of doing things privately.

  Chaz Bono

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• Necessity invented stools,
  Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs,
  And luxury the accomplish'd Sofa last.

  William Cowper

  Elbows, Lasts, Next

  William Cowper (1852). “Poems”, p.159

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• 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.

  David Hume

  Men, Generosity, Giving

  David Hume, Stephen Copley, Andrew Edgar (2008). “Selected Essays”, p.176, Oxford University Press

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• In the long term, there are many factors that will help the luxury market, the creation of new wealth and the Asian tourist boom

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Long, Tourists, Asian

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• Denzel Washington's career is an enormous luxury. Compare him to Wesley Snipes.

  Alec Baldwin

  Careers, Enormous, Compare

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• Cruelty is the luxury of those who have nothing to do, like drugs or racing stables.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Drug, Racing, Cruelty

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