Luxury Quotes - Page 32

• Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Passion, Ambition, Envy

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• The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at every idle moment, how we revel in them, steep our souls in them, intoxicate ourselves with their beguiling fantasies - oh, yes, and how soon and how easily our dream-life and our material life become so intermingled and so fused together that we can't quite tell which is which, anymore.

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Soul, Together

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3191, Delphi Classics

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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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• But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

  Alexander Pope

  Disease And Death, Succeed, Avengers

  Alexander Pope (1819). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death”, p.88

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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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• It is solely bigness in business which makes it possible to supply the masses with all those products the present-day American common man does not want to do without. Luxury goods for the few can be produced in small shops. Luxury goods for the many require big business.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Doe, Want

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution: The Economist”, p.105, VM eBooks

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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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• My job affords me the luxury of having help. I don't feel exhausted, I feel lucky.

  Kelly Ripa

  Jobs, Lucky, Helping

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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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• It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Money, Age

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.1103, Best Books on

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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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• No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism, to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Loss, Heartless, Growth

  Nobel Lecture, delivered 5 May 2010, Oslo, Norway

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• I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity.

  Jil Sander

  Simplicity, Convinced

  "No-frill thrills: Jil Sander is back". www.interviewmagazine.com. March 17, 2009.

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• If men with fleshly mortals must be fed, and chew with bleeding teeth the breathing bread; what else is this but to devour our guests, and barbarously renew Cyclopean feasts? While Earth not only can your needs supply, but, lavish of her store, provides for luxury; a guiltless feast administers with ease, and without blood is prodigal to please.

  Pythagoras

  Men, Blood, Breathing

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• George Washington was quite a farmer. He was a farmer, Civil Engineer and gentleman. He made enough at civil engineering to indulge in both the other luxuries.

  Will Rogers

  Engineering, Indulge In, Agriculture

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• Get a sales tax, small on necessities and large on luxuries; then a stiff inheritance tax on the fellow that saves and don't spend. That will get him either way. A tax paid on the day you buy is not as tough as asking you for it the next year when you are broke.

  Will Rogers

  Years, Next Year, Way

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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