Luxury Quotes - Page 37

• Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind.

  Plutarch

  Mind, Use, Laziness

  Plutarch (2013). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.280, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent energy and being; in action, the calmness of trust and determination; in rest, the consciousness of duty accomplished and of victory won; and this repose and this felicity can take place as well in the midst of trial and tempest, as beside the waters of comfort.

  John Ruskin

  Determination, Water, Victory

  John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters”, p.107

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• Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness; but envy gets no reward but vexation.

  Jeremy Collier

  Passion, Ambition, Envy

  Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.108

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• Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury; the time spent engaged in it is not time that could be better spent in more formal educational pursuits. Play is a necessity.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Children, Educational, Play

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2004). “Exuberance: The Passion for Life”, p.69, Vintage

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• A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.

  Shana Alexander

  Children, Ponies, Letters

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?

  Samuel Richardson

  Affluence, Drink, Hungry

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.80

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• The ultimate objective [of comedy] is to get a laugh, so if you can get a laugh off the fact that you did not get a laugh, then you've kinda saved the moment. Other professions don't have that luxury. You don't want to hear a brain surgeon say, "Man, am I so stupid! I cut on the wrong side of your head!!"

  Brian Regan

  Stupid, Cutting, Men

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• American women often fall into the trap of, "Oh, these are my weekend clothes. These are my work clothes. This is what I wear at night." It's so old-fashioned. The French are not afraid of their luxury. Americans can be so puritanical and think, "That's my special-occasion bag." Whereas, for a French woman, it's her everyday bag.

  Michael Kors

  Fall, Weekend, Night

  "Exclusive: Michael Kors' Lifetime Achievements". Interview with Katie Connor, www.marieclaire.com. September 13, 2010.

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• All ills spring from some vice, either in ourselves or others; and even many of our diseases proceed from the same origin. Remove the vices; and the ills follow. You must only take care to remove all the vices. If you remove part, you may render the matter worse. By banishing vicious luxury, without curing sloth and an indifference to others, you only diminish industry in the state, and add nothing to men's charity or their generosity.

  David Hume

  Spring, Men, Generosity

  David Hume (1809). “Essays, moral, political, and literary”, p.297

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• Doubt remains a luxury I won't do without.

  Eleanor Clark

  Doubt, Remains

  Eleanor Clark (1978). “Eyes, etc: a memoir”, HarperCollins

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• I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it, and I hope we all share it. ... I am sure that the great glory of poetry in one's heart does not wait on achievement.

  Stella Benson

  Writing, Heart, People

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• Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods, -- surely showing how perfect is the meeting of extremes.

  Alice James

  Attitude, Struggle, Perfect

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before.

  Mary Mapes Dodge

  Hardship

  Mary Mapes Dodge (2012). “Hans Brinker”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• Civilization, that great fraud of our times, has promised man that by complicating his existence it would multiply his pleasures. ... Civilization has promised man freedom, at the cost of giving up everything dear to him, which it arrogantly treated as lies and fantasies. ... Hour by hour needs increase and are nearly always unsatisfied, peopling the earth with discontented rebels. The superfluous has become a necessity and luxuries indispensable.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Giving Up, Lying, Men

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• It is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably.

  David Platt

  Temptation, Battle, Stuff

  David Platt (2010). “Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream”, p.130, Multnomah

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• You know daytime television? You know what it's supposed to be for? It's to keep unemployed people happy. It's supposed to stop them running to the social security demanding mad luxuries like cookers and windows.

  Victoria Wood

  Running, Mad, People

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• Dullness is a kind of luxury.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Kind, Dullness

  Bharati Mukherjee (2007). “Jasmine”, p.10, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Age, Literature, Common

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.104

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• I’ve often said that global climate change is an issue where no one has the luxury of being “half-pregnant.” You either are or you aren’t. And so it is with climate change. You either understand and accept the science – or you don’t. Folks this isn’t a cafeteria where you can pick and choose and accept the science that tells us what is happening, but then reject the science that warns us what will happen.

  John F. Kerry

  Issues, Climate, Half

  John F. Kerry's Speech at the COP15 climate conference in Copenhagen, archive.boston.com. December 16, 2009.

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• I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.

  Wang Jianlin

  People, Shows, Pursue

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• Principles are sometimes an unaffordable luxury.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Principles, Sometimes

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• It's when you have friends that you can afford to be lonely. When you know a lot of people, loneliness becomes a luxury. It's only when you're forced to be lonely that it's bad.

  Vera Caspary

  Lonely, Loneliness, People

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• Prayer, even more than eating or sleeping, is not a luxury but a necessity, and we are only fully human when we remember this and arrange our life accordingly.

  Sheila Cassidy

  Prayer, Sleep, Remember

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• EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Bling, Finest, Couture

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• I wish I had the luxury of time to read and write like grad students do. That sounds pretty awesome. When I was writing my first book one of my friends was going to grad school at the same time and I heard a lot of stories about drinking, too. I feel like everyone was having affairs.

  Jami Attenberg

  Drinking, Book, Writing

  "Go Forth (Vol. 10)". Interview with Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. June 5, 2013.

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