Luxury Quotes
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The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure; for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise; luxury, therefore, as it increases our wants, increases our capacity for happiness
Oliver Goldsmith
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Investing in [children] is not a national luxury or a national choice. It's a national necessity. If the foundation of your house is crumbling, you don't say you can't afford to fix it while you're building astronomically expensive fences to protect it from outside enemies. The issue is not are we going to pay - it's are we going to pay now, up front, or are we going to pay a whole lot more later on.
Marian Wright Edelman
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It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
Orson Scott Card
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I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.
Coco Chanel
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Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.
Judith Butler
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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
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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
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There is ten times more in the world than would maintain all in yet unknown luxury. Yet how much misery there is in our midst; not because there is not enough, but owing to the misdirection of it.
Ernestine Rose
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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
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I'm certainly no bohemian hippie, and I do love luxury.
Johnny McDaid Snow Patrol
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Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow.
Paul Gauguin
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Luxury is experiencing reality.
Chogyam Trungpa
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I have a luxury of people coming to see me whether I play for the crowd or not. I don't take that lightly.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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Art is a luxury but also a necessity.
Edwidge Danticat
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Luxury is the opportunity to experience quality, be it a place, a person or an object.
Keanu Reeves
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With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may have become a luxury that only the poor peoples of this world can afford.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.
Richard Powers
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For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life.
Albert M. Greenfield
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Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do.
J. I. Packer
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People who can't be alone have a problem. Loneliness is a luxury for people like me.
Karl Lagerfeld
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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
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Morals are a luxury of the rich.
George Bernard Shaw