Luxury Quotes
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I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.
Pablo Picasso -
Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
Plato
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Because we have this whole other human being we have to think about other than ourselves. We had the luxury before of being totally self-centered.
William Emerson Arnett -
Existentialism is possible only in a world where God is dead or a luxury, and where Christianity is dead.
Gabriel Vahanian -
I didn't want people to say: Stelios does everything on the cheap at work, and in private he lives in the lap of luxury. That's not me. I don't need those status symbols. I don't need a private jet either when I can go everywhere with Easy.
Stelios Haji-Ioannou -
Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow.
Paul Gauguin -
As a child, I was spoilt by my parents as an only son. They indulged my every whim, and I grew up in luxury.
Asif Ali Zardari -
For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life.
Albert M. Greenfield
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First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries.
P. D. James -
Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.
Alistair Cooke -
I give myself the luxury of time in shaping a song. It's very common for me to work three months or more on a single song. Plotting takes time and effort, for there are many false turns. I fill up pages and pages with my mistakes, thereby eliminating them. Eventually a trail is broken through this mountain of mistakes. Sometimes it's as easy as putting eggs in a basket; other times it's like trying to pound a ton of sand into a diamond.
David Massengill -
People who can't be alone have a problem. Loneliness is a luxury for people like me.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Just to be spontaneous and free is life's biggest luxury and privilege when life is so busy.
Morten Harket A-ha -
It is a luxury to put our interests first. It is an honor to put the interests of others before our own.
Simon Sinek
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Worry is a funky luxury when a lot has to be done.
Melvin Van Peebles -
Love isn't relevant once things are really bad. They say love makes the world go round – but it doesn't, you know. Love is a luxury, and you indulge in it when things are OK. As soon as they are bad – really bad – there just isn't a place for it anymore-no place where there could be room for it.
Celia Fremlin -
If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another's.
O. Henry -
The greatest luxury is not driving. I didn't own a car until I was 30, and that was a Rolls-Royce, so it was cheaper to insure a chauffeur. I never want to drive again. My mind is always on other things. I hate parking, and I'm very short-tempered and would get road rage, I'm sure.
Michael Caine -
I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.
Francis Ford Coppola -
Self-pity is the simplest luxury.
Rita Mae Brown
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Luxury is the opportunity to experience quality, be it a place, a person or an object.
Keanu Reeves -
Luxury, that alluring pest with fair forehead, which, yielding always to the will of the body, throws a deadening influence over the senses, and weakens the limbs more than the drugs of Circe's cup.
Claudius Claudianus -
To me, it's always a luxury to be able to work with the best of the best because they make it easier for you to do what you do.
Viola Davis -
There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.
William Wordsworth