Luxuries Quotes
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Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.
Oscar Wilde -
... she indulged in melancholy - that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries.
Charles Dickens
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The taste for luxuries increases with marvelous rapidity under indulgence.
George Payne Rainsford James -
A high proportion of the population enjoys many of the ‘luxuries’ which until recently were considered the prerogative of the rich; and the ordinary worker lives at what even two decades ago would have been considered in Britain a middle-class standard of life.
Anthony Crosland -
I was not interested in luxuries because I had an elegant life as a child. My family, very aristocratic, one of the richest in Colombia, educated me like a princess, in the English style.
Virginia Vallejo -
Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Great direction, great acting partner, great character backstory - these are all rare luxuries to have in the room.
Hale Appleman
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The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard -
Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the necessities of the many are not sacrificed for the luxuries of the few.
Marian Wright Edelman -
In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.
George Eliot -
Positive emotions are not trivial luxuries, but instead might be critical necessities for optimal functioning.
Barbara Fredrickson -
Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries...
Edgar Allan Poe -
When we turn luxuries into necessities, we jeopardize our ability for contentedness.
Alistair Begg
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Never economize on luxuries.
Angela Thirkell -
My goal was not to have huge luxuries. As a child, I wanted a house with a garden, which I have today. This is what I dreamed of. I’d never worry about age if I knew I could go on being loved and having the possibility to love... So it isn’t age or even death that one fears, as much as loneliness and the lack of affection.
Audrey Hepburn -
Books are not luxuries. They are the meat and drink for the mind.
Andrew Taylor -
This will be the day when we shall bring into full realization the dream of American democracy - a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering.
Bran Ferren