Luxury Quotes - Page 6

• Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Memories, Yummy, Childhood

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• Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.

  Ingvar Kamprad

  Stay Strong, Ikea, Stay Positive

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

  Walter Bagehot

  Air, Civilization, Climate

  Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton (1891). “Literary studies ; Religious and metaphysical essays ; Letters on the French coup d'état”

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• Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.

  Francis Quarles

  Heart, Tails, Mouths

  Christopher Harvey, Francis Quarles (1808). “The school of the heart, or The heart of itself gone away from God brought back again to him and instructed by him, by Francis Quarles [really by C. Harvey. Adapted from B. van Haeften's Schola cordis]. To which is added, The learning of the heart by the same author [really by C. Harvey. Ed. by C.E. De Coetlogon. Issued as vol. 2 of Emblems divine and moral, by F. Quarles. Wanting the title-leaf and plates].”

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• The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Team, Issues, Addresses

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• I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.

  Twyla Tharp

  Thinking, Privileged

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury

  Anish Kapoor

  Doe, Aesthetic, Propositions

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• In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.

  Bernard Arnault

  Heritage

  "Chairman of LVMH, Bernard Arnault TalkAsia Interview Transcript". Interview with Lorraine Hahn, edition.cnn.com. February 12, 2005.

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• There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

  Oscar Wilde

  Self, Blame, Feels

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 8 (1891)

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• The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.

  Robert MacNeil

  Play, Afternoon, Able

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• All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.

  Joseph Joubert

  Taste, Moral

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.108

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• Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.

  John Lothrop Motley

  Funny, Giving

  Quoted in Oliver Wendell Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1857 - 1858)

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• Luxury is obviously the direction that interests me the most, but there is a lot of confusion between luxury and exhibitionism. For me, the concept of luxury is more traditional, more exclusive, more sophisticated than luxury for the masses.

  Giorgio Armani

  Confusion, Exhibitionism, Sophisticated

  Interview with Daniela Morera, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• I'm happy when I can spend every day doing the things that I like to do. That's my luxury.

  Warren Buffett

  I Can

  "Germans Know Something About Business". Interview with Christoph Pauly and Janko Tietz, www.spiegel.de. May 28, 2008.

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• It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.

  Joe Pantoliano

  Being Happy, Morning, Able

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. March 31, 2001.

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• Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  Defendant (1901) "Defence of Penny Dreadfuls"

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• Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Soul, Room Service, Towers

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• For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless.

  Patty Duke

  Lonely, Sunset, Ideas

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.8, Bantam

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• We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Life, Success, Giving

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• Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

  Dodie Smith

  Cost, Contemplation, Seems

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.40, Random House

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• Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Pain, Add, Pleasure

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• The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Bed, Thrones, World

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

  George William Curtis

  Anger, Men, Indulge In

  GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS (1868). “PRUE AND I”, p.126

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• Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Tyrants, Republic, Ruins

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• The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

  Stendhal

  Fashion, Horse, Men

  Stendhal (1957). “Love”, Merlin Pr

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