Luxuries Quotes
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Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.
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... she indulged in melancholy - that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries.
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The taste for luxuries increases with marvelous rapidity under indulgence.
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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.
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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.
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Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up.
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O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.
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Great direction, great acting partner, great character backstory - these are all rare luxuries to have in the room.
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The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.
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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.
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Positive emotions are not trivial luxuries, but instead might be critical necessities for optimal functioning.
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In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.
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When we turn luxuries into necessities, we jeopardize our ability for contentedness.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries...
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Never economize on luxuries.
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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.
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Books are not luxuries. They are the meat and drink for the mind.
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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.
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Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering.
