606+ Best Luxury Quotes To Indulge A Luxurious Lifestyle

Step into a world where opulence meets eloquence, where words weave a tapestry of extravagance, and where the pursuit of luxury is not just a lifestyle but an art form. In a society enamored with the finer things, the power of words has the ability to elevate our experiences and aspirations. Enter the realm of the Best Luxury Quotes to indulge a luxurious lifestyle, a collection that transcends the ordinary and beckons you to savor the richness of life. As we undertake this linguistic journey, prepare to be captivated by expressions that celebrate the essence of indulgence and redefine what it means to live in the lap of luxury.

606+ Best Luxury Quotes To Indulge A Luxurious Lifestyle

A. Edward Newton – If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.
Adam Smith – It must always be remembered, however, that it is the luxuries, and not the necessary expense of the inferior ranks of people, that ought ever to be taxed.
Adam Smith – The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess … It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.
Adam Smith – When the toll upon carriages of luxury, upon coaches, post-chaises, etc. is made somewhat higher in proportion to their weight, than upon carriages of necessary use, such as carts, wagons, etc. the indolence and vanity of the rich is made to contribute in a very easy manner to the relief of the poor, by rendering cheaper the transportation of heavy goods to all the different parts of the country.
Aerin Lauder – Luxury is anything that feels special. I mean, it can be a moment, it can be a walk on the beach, it could be a kiss from your child,or it could be a beautiful picture frame, a special fragrance. I think luxury doesn’t necessarily have to mean expensive.
Agnetha Faltskog – When I’m living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it’s a walk-on part.
Ai Weiwei – All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.
Ai Weiwei – We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It’s very materialistic. It’s full of desire and luxury goods.
Al Gini – Part of the true luxury of “earned laziness” are the braggin rights that come along with being purposefully and publicly lazy. It is a badge of distinction, an emblem of success, without having to say too much about it. It labels us, affords us kudos, and raises our profile in the “pecking order” of our fellow troglodytes. It says to others, “See, I’ve done so well that I can afford to do nothing at all whenever I so choose!”
Alain de Botton – The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word “luxury.”
Albert M. Greenfield – For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life.
Alexander Hamilton – As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as only a graceful appendage of wealth, and the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard. This is the real disposition of human nature; it is what neither the honorable member nor myself can correct. It is a common misfortunate that awaits our State constitution, as well as all others.
Alexander Pope – But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev’ry death its own avenger breeds.
Alexander Pope – Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!
Alfred Marshall – It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.
Alison Sweeney – Yoga is my luxury workout. If I’m on vacation or I have a day off, I love a 90-minute yoga class. It’s a really strong workout, but it takes a little bit longer.
Alistair Begg – When we turn luxuries into necessities, we jeopardize our ability for contentedness.
Allen Tate – Men expect too much, do too little, Put the contraption before the accomplishment, Lack skill of the interior mind To fashion dignity with shapes of air. Luxury, yes but not elegance!
Amanda Donohoe – I don’t like posh hotels. I like small, eclectic hotels, and luxury for me would mean really good company with good food in a really funky, beautiful house in the middle of a field where someone came and serviced the place for us.
Amy Carmichael – Does it not stir up our hearts, to go forth and help them, does it not make us long to leave our luxury, our exceeding abundant light, and go to them that sit in darkness?
Amy Tan – That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn’t become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.
Anchee Min – To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.
Andre Balazs – I don’t think it ever does any harm in any business to feel that there is someone there who cares about it. If you look at any business, fashion being the most obvious, the aura, or the reality of the designer, is part of what creates it. It’s true in luxury goods stores and in good food stores. It leaves a palpable sense that someone cares.
Andre Balazs – One of the few luxuries left is travel, and the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.
Andre Leon Talley – Luxury is…to be able to take control of one’s life, health, and the pursuit of happiness in a way that is joyful.
Andrew Carnegie – Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities.
Andrew Carnegie – The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train.
Andrew Solomon – I would argue that engaging with the rest of the world is not only a luxury, in the way that travel is, but actually a moral responsibility.
Andrew Tobias – People don’t need to find reasons to justify their not giving. What they need to find is the inspiration to give. And those who don’t, but could afford to, are missing out on one of wealth’s greatest luxuries.
Andrew Young – On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
Angela Thirkell – Never economize on luxuries.
Ann Radcliffe – What are riches – grandeur – health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul; – and what the sufferings of poverty, disappointment, despair – to the anguish of an afflicted one!
Anna Kournikova – If you saw me with my clothes off you’d see that my body is in great shape and ready to take on the world…. I could snap my fingers and have any man I wanted, but I have too much respect for myself for that… I’m like the most expensive, exotic item on a gourmet menu. People can look then wonder about the taste and the sensuous delights of the dish, but when it comes down to it they simply can’t afford such an expensive luxury.
Anna Wintour – The democratization of luxury means more people are going to get better fashion. And the more people who can have fashion, the better.
Anthony Crosland – 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 – What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.
Anthony Trollope – Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
Antonio Damasio – Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard – The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.
Aravind Adiga – Having plenty of living space has to be the greatest luxury in a city…
Arthur Erickson – We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.
Arthur Helps – The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley – In the long term, there are many factors that will help the luxury market, the creation of new wealth and the Asian tourist boom.
Arthur Schopenhauer – In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were not much more difficult to satisfy than those of the brute. Hence luxury in all its forms; delicate food, the use of tobacco and opium, spirituous liquors, fine clothes, and the thousand and one things that he considers necessary to his existence.
Arthur Schopenhauer – The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.
Ashton Kutcher – True luxury is being able to own your time – to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation.
Audre Lorde – It is never easy to demand the most from ourselves, from our lives, from our work. To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society is to encourage excellence. But giving in to the fear of feeling and working to capacity is a luxury only the unintentional can afford, and the unintentional are those who do not wish to guide their own destinies.

Barbara Fredrickson – Positive emotions are not trivial luxuries, but instead might be critical necessities for optimal functioning.
Benazir Bhutto – It would be so nice to have the luxury just to laze. So nice not to have to always get up and get dressed for some occasion. Always having to move from here to there, where everything is scheduled and even having lunch with my kids on their Easter break has to be slotted in. Maybe one day…
Benedict Cumberbatch – I don’t live beyond my means. I enjoy luxury and I enjoy the privilege of it, when I can afford it, and I’m in the situation where it’s been given to me, but I’m very conscious of what is wasteful.
Benjamin Disraeli – No one but an adventurous traveler can know the luxury of sleep.
Benjamin Disraeli – The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence.
Benjamin Franklin – Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things
Bernard Arnault – In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.
Bernard Arnault – Louis Vuitton, the world’s biggest luxury brand in terms of sales, is planning to dampen its expansion worldwide and focus on high-end products to preserve its exclusive image.
Bernard Arnault – Luxury goods are the only area in which it is possible to make luxury margins.
Beth Orton – Even when I haven’t had money, I found money to travel. It’s a luxury that’s a kind of necessity, I think.
Bill Gates – If you’re a guest [at my $113 million house], you’ll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any image you like – presidential portraits, reproductions of High Renaissance paintings, pictures of sunsets, airplanes, skiers in the Andes, a rare French stamp, the Beatles in 1965.
Bill Smith – Whether taking a shorter seven-day jaunt or combining several unique cruises to create the ultimate European exploration, luxury travelers will enjoy the grandeur of Europe and the warmth and luxury of the Crystal experience.
Bill Vaughan – Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!
Brad Pitt – I’ve had the luxury of travel and, in the luxury of travel, I’ve seen the detriments of poverty and I’ve gone on to see how easy the cures can be – cures that cost cents to the richest nations in the world.
Britt Ekland – I love luxury, I love the high life, and I have to foot the bills – I have received practically nothing from my marriages and relationships.

Calvin Trillin – Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.
Carolina Herrera – Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.
Cesare Pavese – Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
Charles R. Swindoll – Precious few are those who can live in the lap of luxury … who can keep their moral, spiritual and financial equilibrium … while balancing on the elevated tightrope of success. … there is about one in a hundred who can dance to the tune of success without paying the piper named Compromise.
Charlie Chaplin – The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. [and therefore not appreciate it fully or be grateful for it every moment.]
Charlize Theron – There’s an instant access to luxury that I think women really appreciate.
Chick Hearn – Players are spoiled by charter airplanes, the finest hotels, a big per diem every day.
Chogyam Trungpa – Luxury is experiencing reality.
Christian Nestell Bovee – Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury.
Christian Siriano – For me I’m a luxury brand trying to prove to people and the industry that it’s not about being a TV celebrity in any which way, it’s about being a designer and having a business and being successful at that.
Christopher Bailey – I think we’re in a quiet time right now. Luxury can be in the fit.
Christopher Columbus – But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.
Christopher Columbus – Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
Christopher Columbus – I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses.
Coco Chanel – Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
Coco Chanel – 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 – Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends.
Coco Chanel – Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
Coco Chanel – Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Conor McPherson – I’m living as an artist, and that’s a staggering feeling, it’s a total luxury. And because you have this amazing chance, with so much freedom, I’m determined to make something that is worth that. I feel this responsibility – to create something that makes an audience feel, which takes them somewhere. But that’s very hard to achieve.
Cyril Connolly – The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence — luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition — are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Dan Buettner – I think we live in a culture that relentlessly pursues comfort. Ease is related to disease. We shouldn’t always be fleeing hardship. Hardship also brings people together. We should welcome it.
D’Angelo Russell – I hired a full-time chef, so I wasn’t taking that time to order pizzas or eat Wild Wings or stuff like that. I travel somewhere, I’m gone for a long period, I have a chef. I think that elevated my game.
Dave Ramsey – A vacation home is a wonderful ‘extra’ as you start building wealth. Remember, though, it’s still basically a very large, very expensive toy.
David Hume – Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when it engrosses all a man’s expense, and leaves no ability for such acts of duty and generosity as are required by his situation and fortune. The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas would give bread to a whole family during six months.
David Hume – Luxury is a word of uncertain signification, and may be taken in a good as in a bad sense.
David Hume – The best taxes are such as are levied upon consumptions, especially those of luxury; because such taxes are least felt by the people. They seem, in some measure, voluntary; since a man may choose how far he will use the commodity: They naturally produce sobriety and frugality, if judiciously imposed: And being confounded with the natural price of the commodity, they are scarcely perceived by the consumers. Their only disadvantage is that they are expensive in the levying.
David Ricardo – But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and could neither increase wages nor lower profits.
Deborah Needleman – Style is luxury, and luxury is simply what makes you happy.
Democritus – Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
Diana Dors – What is bad about luxury as long as you can afford it?
Diana Vreeland – No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.
Diego Della Valle – Italian style is a natural attitude. It is about a life of good taste. It doesn’t have to be expensive. Simple but with good taste. Luxury is possible to buy. Good taste is not.
Diego Della Valle – The boom for luxury goods is unending. There are people who never have to worry about whether they can afford something they like. In one part of the world or another there will always be someone with money to spend on luxury.
DJ Khaled – God has blessed me to see the luxury side of things.
Doc Childre – Remember, don’t waste time comparing your life to others who seem more fortunate. Being fortunate is based on how much peace you have, not how many luxuries or conveniences you have. Practice from the heart to make peace with what is.
Dodie Smith – Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.
Dorothy Day – This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the luxury. We are the rich country of the world, like Dives at the feast. We must try hard, we must study to be poor like Lazarus at the gate, who was taken into Abraham’s bosom.
Doug Larson – Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, and paradise is when you have none.

Edna St. Vincent Millay – Although we sometimes did without a few of life’s necessities, we rarely lacked for its luxuries.
Edsger Dijkstra – Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
Edward Bellamy – When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread of want and desire of luxury was but one of several motives which the pursuit of money represented; the others, and with many the more influential, being desire of power, of social position, and reputation for ability and success.
Edward Everett Hale – Friendship is one of the greatest luxuries of life.
Edward Gibbon – Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the citizens of Antioch. The arts of luxury were honoured; the serious and manly virtues were the subject of ridicule; and the contempt for female modesty and reverent age announced the universal corruption of the capital of the East.
Edward Gibbon – The ancients were destitute of many of the conveniences of life which have been invented or improved by the progress of industry; and the plenty of glass and linen has diffused more real comforts among the modern nations of Europe than the senators of Rome could derive from all the refinements of pompous or sensual luxury.
Edward Gibbon – The complaints of contemporary writes, who deplore the increase of luxury and deprivation of manners, are commonly expressive of their peculiar temper and situation. There are few observers who possess a clear and comprehensive view of the revolutions of society, and who are capable of discovering the nice and secret springs of action which impel, in the same uniform direction, the bland and capricious passions of a multitude of individuals.
Edward M Hays – Simply to have all the necessities of life and three meals a day will not bring happiness. Happiness is hidden in the unnecessary and in those impractical things that bring delight to the inner person… When we lack proper time for the simple pleasures of life, for the enjoyment of eating, drinking, playing, creating, visiting friends, and watching children at play, then we have missed the purpose of life. Not on bread alone do we live but on all these human and heart-hungry luxuries.
Edwidge Danticat – Art is a luxury but also a necessity.
Eleanor Roosevelt – Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.
Elizabeth Jane Howard – It’s not a luxury if you can’t do without it!
Elizabeth Taylor – Fragrance is an incredibly intimate thing. It can evoke very specific thoughts or memories and is a little different for each person who wears it. I also think it’s the most accessible luxury.
Ellen Goodman – What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at rest. The days when you shut down the mental machinery that keeps life on track and let life simply wander. The days when you stop planning, analyzing, thinking and just are. Summer is my period of grace.
Epictetus – Embrace reality. Think about what delights you – the small luxuries on which you depend, the people whom you cherish most. But remember that they have their own distinct character, which is quite a separate matter from how we happen to regard them.
Eric Hoffer – Man is a luxury-loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles.
Erin Heatherton – I use Rodin Luxury Face Oil at night, and it keeps my skin hydrated and refreshed for the day – not tired from all the makeup.
Ernestine Rose – 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.
Ernie J Zelinski – The problem with people nowadays is that a ‘necessity’ is any luxury your neighbor happens to have.
Ethan Hawke – All that stuff with the tabloids is a kind of luxury tax I pay for all the good things I do in my life.
Ettore Bugatti – Nothing is too beautiful, nothing is too expensive.
Eula Biss – Wealthier countries have the luxury of entertaining fears the rest of the world cannot afford.
Euripides – I think it makes small difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All that is an empty glorification left for those who live.
Evan Davis – Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene, the practicalities are in trouble, as women who wear expensive stiletto heels can testify.
Evan Ross – My mom liked to have us travel in first class with her. She’s like, ‘I work for my money, and I want my kids to live a certain kind of way.’ My dad used to get so mad at my mom for flying us first class. So it was a clash on that.

Ferran Adria – I’m not a materialist, I don’t care for things. I don’t like cars, I hate things that can be exploited. I live a simple life. The only luxuries I have in my life are travel and food.
Ferruccio Lamborghini – Lamborghini is refinement, luxury and perfection.
Fiona Bruce – I’d set out to Oman in search of luxury with culture and family-friendly adventure thrown in. And I found it.
Flora Thompson – The luxuries of the few were becoming necessities of the many.
Fran Lebowitz  –To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.
Franca Sozzani – Giving back is the new luxury.
Frances Moore Lappé – I think that luxury has nothing to do with money, and everything to do with beauty.
Francis Kurkdjian – For all fragrances I create, I ask each of my suppliers to deliver and provide the best raw materials. It is my personal quest for excellence and quality to create luxury perfumes.
Francis Quarles – Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld – Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect the public weal.
Francois-Henri Pinault – Linguistics is a good way of defining the culture of a brand. The vocabulary used by sports and lifestyle brands – running, fitness, training, motorsports – is all about functionality, whereas the vocabulary of the luxury business – handbags, ready-to-wear – is all about the product.
Francois-Henri Pinault – You don’t buy luxury to enter a community, but to set yourself apart from others.
Frank Lloyd Wright – Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Frank Sinatra, Jr. – As I look back on it now, I’m thinking of one very vital factor, that one factor being that I was afforded the luxury – the luxurious opportunity – of finally being able to put something back. As a child growing up, it was his [Frank Sinatra] efforts that put a roof over my head, food in my stomach, clothes on my back, and that got me an education and sent me to the doctor when I was sick. All those things a child could benefit from parent. I did not want to be in a position where all I had ever done was take, take, take, frankly.
Frankie Rayder – It puts things into perspective when we realize that people can live without the luxuries we grow accustomed to having.
Friedrich August von Hayek – Though freedom and wealth are both good things which most of us desire and though we often need both to obtain what we wish, they still remain different. Whether or not I am my own master and can follow my own choice and whether the possibilities from which I must choose are many or few are two entirely different questions. The courtier living in the lap of luxury but at the beck and call of his prince may be much less free than a poor peasant or artisan, less able to live his own life and to choose his own opportunities for usefulness.
Friedrich Nietzsche – As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality — where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.
Friedrich Nietzsche – People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.
Friedrich Nietzsche – The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man’s heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Up to now, woman has been mankind’s supreme luxury.

G. Bruce Boyer – Real luxury is understanding quality, and having the time to enjoy it.
Gabriel Zaid – Confronted with the choice between having time and having things, we’ve chosen to have things. Today it is a luxury to read what Socrates said, not because the books are expensive, but because our time is scarce.
Garrison Keillor – It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn’t hear the barbarians coming.
Garrison Keillor – To your left is the marina where several senior cabinet officials keep luxury yachts for weekend cruises on the Potomac. Some of these ships are up to 100 feet in length; the Presidential yacht is over 200 feet in length, and can remain submerged for up to 3 weeks.
Gary Ackerman – There’s a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they’re going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There’s a message there.
Gautama Buddha – Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.
Gautama Buddha – Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly; nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.
Gemma Ward – I grew up on the beach. It was such a luxury to wake up to the sun and the ocean.
George Bancroft – Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.
George C. Scott – Acting on the stage is a luxury for me. I lose money. I make movies for financial reasons and this allows me the luxury of acting on Broadway. Hollywood, unfortunately, exploits actors for their own reasons, which are usually financial. So we might as well exploit Hollywood as much as it exploits us.
George Crabbe – He tried the luxury of doing good.
George Eliot – One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
George Washington – Conscience … seldom comes to a man’s aid while he is in the zenith of health and revelling in pomp and luxury upon illgotten spoils. It is generally the last act of his life, and it comes too late to be of much service to others here, or to himself hereafter.
Giambattista Vico – Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.
Gideon Gono – Those who want luxury cars should buy them at market rates and not … abuse public funds.
Gilbert K. Chesterton – Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall-porters.
Gilbert K. Chesterton – Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
Giles Deacon – With couture, the great thing is that each piece has its own character, and you have space to explore and continue themes season after season.
Giorgio Armani – From the elitism of luxury to the democracy of beauty.
Giorgio Armani – I believe that style is the only real luxury, that is really desirable.
Giorgio Armani – 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.
Glenn Tipton – I’ve got the luxury to tailor make the songs so I can sing them.
Goparaju Ramachandra Rao – Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type?
Gordon S. Wood – [John] Adams’s perception of Europe, and especially France, was clearly different than [Thomas] Jefferson’s. For Jefferson, the luxury and sophistication of Europe only made American simplicity and virtue appear dearer. For Adams, by contrast, Europe represented what America was fast becoming – a society consumed by luxury and vice and fundamentally driven by a struggle between rich and poor, gentlemen and commoners.
Gregory Benford – Everybody feels he has a right to a life of luxury – or at least comfort – so there’s a lot of frustration and resentment when the dream craps out.

H. Rap Brown – Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.
Hallie Flanagan – Art in America has always been regarded as a luxury.
Hallie Flanagan – Neither should the theater in our country be regarded as a luxury. It is a necessity because in order to make democracy work the people must increasingly participate; they can’t participate unless they understand; and the theater is one of the great mediums of understanding.
Hannah More – After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the temper and humanize the affections, it is certain, that nothing hardens the heart like excessive and unbounded luxury; and he who refuses the fewest gratifications to his own voluptuousness, will generally be found the least susceptible of tenderness for the wants of others.
Hannah More – Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices
Hari Nef – We consume luxury. We participate in the image industry in a meaningful way, and we have a look and a background that should be taken on its own terms.
Harry S. Truman – Too many pass judgement on wartime decisions in the luxury of a peacetime environment.
Harshvardhan Rane – We are killing a living thing just so that we can wear it? I think fake leather is also beautiful and lasts longer. All I am saying is that if you like wearing leather stuff, put in some extra effort and explore the market. Take on fake leather and stop being part of this cruelty.
Hedi Slimane – I don’t like the collusion between high fashion design and high street. You have to know where you stand. I belong to luxury fashion. That’s what I’ve always felt and embraced. I like the best quality, the best fabrics and the most creative field in fashion. I will stay consistent. I belong to this world.
Hedi Slimane – I only like luxury fashion. You have to decide where you stand. I like well-made, authentic clothes, well-crafted tailoring. I also like the dream and fantasy of luxury, the exception and rarity of it. I have no interest at all in fast retail. It is ambiguous.
Helen Keller – Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams.
Helen Keller – To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
Helmut Jahn – I used to buy nice clothes and drive a nice car when I couldn’t afford it. But I spent all my money doing it, and now I don’t have to. I like nice things. I like to travel in a certain style. I like to live in a nice place.
Henri Frederic Amiel – It is dangerous to abandon one’s self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.
Henri Rousseau – Luxury… corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
Henry David Thoreau – Art can never match the luxury and superfluity of Nature. In the former all is seen; it cannot afford concealed wealth, and is niggardly in comparison; but Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.
Henry David Thoreau – Compared with this simple, fibrous life, our civilized history appears the chronicle of debility, of fashion, and the arts of luxury. But the civilized man misses no real refinement in the poetry of the rudest era. It reminds him that civilization does but dress men. It makes shoes, but it does not toughen the soles of the feet. It makes cloth of finer texture, but it does not touch the skin. Inside the civilized man stands the savage still in the place of honor. We are those blue-eyed, yellow-haired Saxons, those slender, dark-haired Normans.
Henry David Thoreau – I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.
Henry David Thoreau – Men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries.
Henry David Thoreau – Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to our progress. Our life is frittered away by detail. I say let your affairs be as two or three, not a hundred or a thousand. And keep your accounts on your thumb nail.
Henry David Thoreau – Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.
Henry David Thoreau – Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, which in others are luxuries merely and in others still are entirely unknown.
Henry David Thoreau – The very austerity of the Brahmans is tempting to the devotional soul, as a more refined and nobler luxury. Wants so easily and gracefully satisfied seem like a more refined pleasure. Their conception of creation is peaceful as a dream.
Henry Fairlie – The most important fact about our shopping malls, as distinct from the ordinary shopping centers where we go for our groceries, is that we do not need most of what they sell, not even for our pleasure or entertainment, not really even for a sensation of luxury. Little in them is essential to our survival, our work, or our play, and the same is true of the boutiques that multiply on our streets.
Henry Home, Lord Kames – Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.
Henry James – The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment and responsibility of the novelist, is that there is no limit to what he may attempt as an executant – no limit to his possible experiments, efforts, discoveries, successes.
Henry Theodore Tuckerman – Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious.
Henry Ward Beecher – I know it is more agreeable to walk upon carpets than to lie upon dungeon floors, I know it is pleasant to have all the comforts and luxuries of civilization; but he who cares only for these things is worth no more than a butterfly, contented and thoughtless, upon a morning flower; and who ever thought of rearing a tombstone to a last summer’s butterfly?
Henry Ward Beecher – Today is a goblet day. The whole heavens have been mingled with exquisite skill to a delicious flavor, and the crystal cup put to every lip. Breathing is like ethereal drinking. It is a luxury simply to exist.
Henry Ward Beecher – When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.
Herbert Read – We may say that for the painter space is a luxury; for the sculptor it is a necessity.
Hillary Jordan – What unimaginable luxury, never to wrestle with whether or why, never to lie awake nights wondering what if.
Humphry Davy – The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or desire of preserving them leads to laws and social institutions. The discovery of peculiar arts gives superiority to particular nations … to subjugate other nations, who learn their arts, and ultimately adopt their manners;- so that in reality the origin as well as the progress and improvement of civil society is founded in mechanical and chemical inventions.

Iggy Azalea – Luxury lives in the finer details. It’s a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It’s a mint on your pillow before bed.
Igor Babailov – It’s a luxury to have so much time, especially with someone so important and busy. You have to get a feel for the person.
Imelda Marcos – It is not expensive to be beautiful. It takes only a little effort to be presentable and beautiful. But it takes some effort. And unfortunately people think of beauty as luxury, beauty as frivolity, … or extravagance. Beauty is a discipline, beauty is art, is harmony, in the ideological sense and in the theological sense, beauty is God and love made real. And the ultimate reach in this world is beauty.
Ingvar Kamprad – How can I ask people who work for me to travel cheaply if I am traveling in luxury?
Irena Klepfisz – The aspirations of most people–security, pleasure, leisure, meaningful work, creative and intellectual pursuits–are to be supported. These desires and dreams are not shameful. In supporting them, we are showing solidarity with working people, for whom these are luxuries and not givens.
Iris Apfel – To lead the good life in New York, the two most important things for a woman are a chauffeur and a fur-lined raincoat. If you have those two things, you’re made.
Isaac D’Israeli – An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.
Isabel Toledo – Craft takes time, and therefore it is luxury. You cannot do an amazingly well-made garment without taking time—not just the time it takes to make something but also the time it took the maker to come up with the idea. That is all luxury, and that has been lost because were trying to make things faster and faster, cheaper and cheaper. The consumer tends to lose track of what luxury is.
Isabella Beeton – Fish is held out to be one of the greatest luxuries of the table and not only necessary, but even indispensable at all dinners where there is any pretense of excellence or fashion.
Isabella Bird – Water is a beverage which I never enjoyed in purity and perfection before I visited America. It is provided in abundance in the cars, the hotels, the waiting-rooms, the steamers, and even the stores, in crystal jugs or stone filters, and it is always iced. This may be either the result or the cause of the temperance of the people.
Isabelle Eberhardt – Civilization, that great fraud of our times, has promised man that by complicating his existence it would multiply his pleasures. … Civilization has promised man freedom, at the cost of giving up everything dear to him, which it arrogantly treated as lies and fantasies. … Hour by hour needs increase and are nearly always unsatisfied, peopling the earth with discontented rebels. The superfluous has become a necessity and luxuries indispensable.
Isadore Sharp – Luxury, by definition, means something that appears to be the best of whatever it represents. It’s a word that raises people’s expectations, whether talking about clothing for women or locations for people to live. You pay for recognition, but probably the most important thing it represents is delivery on the promise of the brand’s name.
Ivan Panin – Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge.

Jacques Cousteau – Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
James E. Faust – Most of us cannot afford to store a year’s supply of luxury items, but find it more practical to store staples that might keep us from starving in case of emergency.
James Madison – By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
James Norwood Pratt – Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility. Respectfully preparing tea and partaking of it mindfully create heart-to-heart conviviality, a way to go beyond this world and enter a realm apart. No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering agent more benign.
James Salter – They are travelling cheaply, with that touch of indolence and occasional luxury that comes only from having real resources. They live in Levis and sunlight. Sometimes they brush their teeth in streams.
Jane Austen – Let us have the luxury of silence.
Jane Brody – Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure.
Jane Hirshfield – That these are places of beauty and of changed landscape is helpful – but far more important for me is that they offer what I feel as a monastic luxury: undisturbed time.
Jay Leno – In spite of the poor economy, almost 70 percent of Americans occasionally splurge on luxury items — like a blanket on a plane, or a peanut.
Jean Baudrillard – The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.
Jean Cocteau – You have comfort. You don’t have luxury. And don’t tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
Jean de La Fontaine – We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
Jean Paul Gaultier – Elegance is a question of personality, more than one’s clothing.
Jean Paul Gaultier – My clothes have always been expensive. Even though I have had a few lower-priced lines over the years, little by little everything I do tends toward the luxury market.
Jean Plaidy – People always grumbled. If things went well they wanted them to go better. Give them comfort and they wanted luxuries.
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau – They must know but little of mankind who can imagine that, after they have been once seduced by luxury, they can ever renounce it.
Jean-Baptiste Say – The luxury of ostentation affords a much less substantial and solid gratification, than the luxury of comfort, if I may be allowed the expression.
Jeanette Winterson – I don’t understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it’s a mind-altering possibility.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
Jean-Paul Sartre – The past is the luxury of proprietors.
Jeff Koons – Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class.
Jennifer Stone – Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury!
Jenny McCarthy – When I travel, I like to take advantage of room service. I’m really into eggs Benedict in the morning.
Jeremy Collier – Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness; but envy gets no reward but vexation.
Jeri Ryan – My husband travels a lot with his job, so we have a lot of frequent flyer miles so we can hop on a plane with no notice. That’s a nice luxury and he is very supportive.

Jil Sander – I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity.
Jimmy Carr – Staying in luxury hotels still gives me a kick, especially Oulton Hall in Yorkshire. I’d stay in a hotel for the breakfast and room service.
Jimmy Carter – Our values are not luxuries, but necessities. They are not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.
Jimmy Hoffa – A slab of bread “buttered” with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury.
Joan Halifax – We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.
Jodi Picoult – Writer’s block is for people who have the luxury of time.
Joe Pantoliano – It’s such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.
Johan Huizinga – Life is made too easy. Mankind’s moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.
John Adams – Will you tell me how to prevent riches from producing luxury? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy, intoxication, extravagance, vice and folly?
John Armstrong – If from thy secret bed Of luxury unbidden offspring rise, Let them be kindly welcom’d to the day.
John Armstrong – Riches are oft by guilt and baseness earn’d; Or dealt by chance to shield a lucky knave, Or throw a cruel sunshine on a fool. But for one end, one much-neglected use, Are riches worth your care; (for nature’s wants Are few, and without opulence supplied;) This noble end is, to produce the soul; To show the virtues in their fairest light; To make humanity the minister Of bounteous Providence; and teach the breast The generous luxury the gods enjoy.
John Betjeman – Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it’s the oil of life.
John Bright – The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.
John Dufresne – I used to believe that love and happiness were synonymous. I was a fool. Love intensifies all emotions. Nothing is so painful or so sweet, so thrilling or so desperate… Pleasure is, after all, a luxury. It’s love that’s essential. You are never so alive as when you love, never so alert, intuitive, attentive, never so smart or so compassionate.
John Gay – The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment.
John Jortin – A man hath riches. Whence came they, and whither go they? for this is the way to form a judgment of the esteem which they and their possessor deserve.
John Keats – No, no, I’m sure, My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully, espy A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
John Landis – I grew up thinking of snow as a luxury you visit.
John Lawson – The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro’ the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life.
John Lothrop Motley – Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
John Milton – The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.
John Neff – The baskets start at $25 and the sky’s the limit, I’ve done baskets worth hundreds of dollars. At that price, they are putting in luxury items.
John Steinbeck – With a few exceptions people don’t want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.
Jose Ortega y Gasset – To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.
Joseph Addison – Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.
Joseph Addison – Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
Joseph Addison – We see no where the pernicious effects of luxury on a republic more than in that of the ancient Romans, who immediately found itself poor as soon as this vice got footing among them, though they were possessed of all the riches in the world.
Joseph Conrad – Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
Joseph Priestley – The feeling of it to my lungs was not sensibly different from that of common air; but I fancied that my breast felt peculiarly light and easy for some time afterwards. Who can tell but that, in time, this pure air may become a fashionable article in luxury. Hitherto only two mice and myself have had the privilege of breathing it.
Josiah Warren – The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.
Joss Whedon – I’m more intrigued by things that I haven’t really conceived of yet. I have the luxury of being able to think: “I’ve never done a ballet or an animated film myself.” There are certain things that I feel I’d love to. I just want to keep trying new things and seeing if I’m any good at them, and if I’m not, then at least learning that. I definitely think I’m more interested in what medium I can explore right now than any specific story.
Joy Bryant – Acknowledgement: Understanding and compassion for others and their suffering is the next step. Put yourself in the shoes of people who don’t have the luxury of being wasteful.
Joyce DeWitt – I had money in the bank and had the luxury to pursue a life that meant something, to learn and discover.
Jules Romains – There are certainly numberless women of fashion who consider it perfectly natural to go miles down Fifth Avenue, or Madison Avenue, yet for whom a voyage of half a dozen blocks to east or west would be an adventure, almost a dangerous impairment of good breeding.
Julia Roberts – It’s my privilege and honor to cook three meals a day for my family, and it’s a luxury on a level that I didn’t even realize, because it can be relentless for me on some days. You have pride in how you take care of your family.
Julian Schnabel – It’s a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don’t have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.
Julianna Baggott – Love is a luxury. It’s something that people are allowed to indulge in when they’re not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.
Julie Delpy – I’m dreaming about making movies for eight weeks, because it’s a luxury. But time is money. That’s the reality.
Julius Caesar – Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.
Justin Broadrick – What modern technology has done has afforded us the luxury of abbreviation and being concise with time, I think. Things that it would take you a week to do can now be done in a day, which is absolutely awesome because you can concentrate on the bigger picture.
Juvenal – Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
Juvenal – Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
Juvenal – Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
Juvenal – Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

Kanye West – Beauty has been stolen from the people and is being sold back to them as luxury.
Kanye West – The only luxury is time. The time you get to spend with your family.
Kanye West – Time is the only luxury. It’s the only thing you can’t get back. If you lose your luggage – I’m not gonna say the obvious brand of luggage that I’d normally say because I’ve got a meeting with them soon – if you lose your expensive luggage at the airport, you can get that back. You can’t get the time back.
Kanye West – We’ve been sold a concept of joy through advertising. It was somehow sold to us through a Gucci bag or something.
Karl Lagerfeld – Extreme luxury isn’t the most bling-bling, it’s extreme refinement, which is couture at its finest.
Karl Lagerfeld – Luxury bags make your life more pleasant, make you dream, give you confidence, and show your neighbors you are doing well.
Karl Lagerfeld – Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.
Karl Lagerfeld – People who can’t be alone have a problem. Loneliness is a luxury for people like me.
Karl Marx – Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary.
Kate Hudson – I’m a big rings person…and bracelets…and earrings. I love all of it. One time, I was getting off an airplane and I had been traveling for like a month in Europe, and I came from the airplane right to my mom’s house who I hadn’t seen in awhile, and she looked at me and she goes, “Is it possible to fit any more jewelry on you? Is that actually possible?” And I looked down and, because when I travel I don’t like to pack my jewelry so I end up wearing a ton of it, and I had just had everything on me. And I love buying jewelry when I travel – so there was a lot.
Kathleen Turner – I don’t believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs.
Kay Redfield Jamison – Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury; the time spent engaged in it is not time that could be better spent in more formal educational pursuits. Play is a necessity.
Keanu Reeves – Luxury is the opportunity to experience quality, be it a place, a person or an object.
Kehinde Wiley – I had no idea about where I was going. I had no sense of art as anything other than a problem to be fixed, you know, an itch to be scratched. I was in that studio trying my best to feel content with myself. I had, like, a stipend. I had a place to sleep. I had a studio to work in. I had nothing else to think about, you know. And that’s – that was a huge luxury in New York City.
Kehinde Wiley – I think that gave rise to the type of practice that I – that I do now. I think it was informed by a very Marxist almost “use-value”-driven investigation of painting as agent. These are high-priced luxury goods for wealthy consumers, which are designed to deliver certain communicative effects.
Kehinde Wiley – It never really understood its own situational luxury. And I think that by and large the privilege of being Kehinde Wiley in the 21st century, making these high-priced luxury goods, traveling the world, pointing at these people, behooves me to have a point of view and to say something about it.
Kehinde Wiley – So much of the hubris that surrounded conceptual art in the 1950s through ’70s was that it had this arrogant presupposition that pointing in and of itself was a creative act. It never rigorously politically and socially analyzed the fact that the luxury to point is something that so many people throughout the world don’t have.
Kelli Giddish – It’s a luxury being able to work every day in the streets of Manhattan. It doesn’t get much cooler than that. When you move to New York, that’s exactly what you dream of. And I’m doing it.
Kelly Cutrone – It’s one thing if you are a luxury brand and have been around for 60 years and can weather the retail storm we’ve had, but if you are a new brand that’s just starting out — whether you are a writer or a retailer — innovating through social media is crucial. Those that are hidden and guarded will not progress.
Kelly Ripa – My job affords me the luxury of having help. I don’t feel exhausted, I feel lucky.
Ken Robinson – In a world where lifelong employment in the same job is a thing of the past, creativity is not a luxury. It is essential for personal security and fulfillment.
Kenneth Tynan – I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is pointless and irrationally destructive, and that there is nothing we can do about it. Until everyone is fed, clothed, housed and taught, until human beings have equal leisure to contemplate the overwhelming fact of mortality, we should not (I argued) indulge in the luxury of “privileged despair.”
Kevin McCloud – The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That’s a danger.
Kirk Gibson – Schools used to fund-raise for luxuries, like a trip to the water slides. Now, we fund-raise for things we have to have.
Klaus Topfer – That’s precisely the reason we need less paper and more concrete political decisions – the protection of endangered species is not some luxury item by Gucci or Hermès, for people who have no problems.
Kofi Annan – For too long the development debate has ignored the fact that poverty tends to be characterized not only by material insufficiency but also by denial of rights. What is needed is a rights-based approach to development. Ensuring essential political, economic and social entitlements and human dignity for all people provides the rationale for policy. These are not a luxury affordable only to the rich and powerful but an indispensable component of national development efforts.
Kristin Lehman – We need a bit of both because the cities are so different, and we have that luxury. We’re really lucky.
Kylie Minogue – I’m like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a whim.

Lady G – The mere pronunciation of the word luxurious feels lush, luxuriant.
Lady Gaga – A glamorous life is quite different to a life of luxury. I don’t need luxury. For years, I was practically broke but I was still very vain and glamorous. And I still am.
Lady Randolph Churchill – We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Lana Del Rey – I’ve been really blessed to have a lot of romance in my life. It’s like my last luxury.
Lane Kirkland – The skills and productivity of American Workers, not to mention the taxes they pay, are the greatest economic resource our country has. To condemn large numbers of them to unemployment, to deprive the Treasury of their tax contributions and to force them to live on unemployment at public expense is the most expensive luxury any society ever chose to buy.
Lapo Elkann – No logo, and you don’t advertise for anyone. I don’t believe in imposed luxury. I believe in built luxury. Something you refine with your own taste. Mass luxury is not my luxury.
Laura Miller – The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don’t waste a dime.
Lauren Groff – There is part of me that longs to have the back-to-the-earth life – make my own bread, grow my own wheat, just be really self-sufficient – but I am not, at the moment, willing to give up the luxury of modern life, and amazing schools for my kids, and things that I’ve come to rely on that are parts of society.
Laurence Sterne – Solomon’s excess became an insult upon the privileges of mankind; for by the same plan of luxury, which made it necessary to have forty thousand stalls of horses, he had unfortunately miscalculated his other wants, and so had seven hundred wives…. Wise–deluded man!
Laurie Halse Anderson – School libraries are the foundations of our culture – not luxuries.
Laurie Metcalf – It’s a luxury to be in a tiny space every once in a while and a rush to be on a giant stage every once in a while.
Laz Alonso – I love working on my house and have really been bit by the ‘luxury remodeling’ bug. ‘Million Dollar Rooms,’ ‘Million Dollar Listing’… any show that can give me design inspiration, I soak it in and try my hand at it. Home Depot is my second home!
Lee Myung-bak – When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury.
Leon Eisenberg – To believe that man’s aggressiveness or territoriality is in the nature of the beast is to mistake some men for all men, contemporary society for all possible societies, and, by a remarkable transformation, to justify what is as what needs must be; social repression becomes a response to, rather than a cause of, human violence. Pessimism about man serves to maintain the status quo. It is a luxury for the affluent, a sop to the guilt of the politically inactive, a comfort to those who continue to enjoy the amenities of privilege.
Leonard Cohen – I think there’s an appetite for seriousness. Seriousness is voluptuous, and very few people have allowed themselves the luxury of it.
Leontyne Price – The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.
Linda Vester – I also have the luxury of a stable life.
Lisa Rinna – Yeah, that’s a luxury to be able to go to a two-hour yoga class! Sometimes I’ll just get on the floor and do it for five, ten minutes. Whatever you can get, you just do it.
Lisel Mueller – What luxury, to be so happy that we can grieve over imaginary lives.
Liu Wen – A fun pair of earrings is basically the finishing touch to any outfit; a nice watch is both practical and decorative, while the perfect unique bag is not only eye-catching but also timeless – it can be passed on to future generations.
Livy – Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
Louise Brown – Reading is my greatest luxury.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine – When you’re not used to comfort and good things to eat, you’re intoxicated by them in no time. Truth’s only too pleased to leave you. Very little is ever needed for Truth to let go of you. And after all, you’re not really very keen to keep hold of it.
Luc de Clapiers – You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain; unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men.
Ludwig von Mises – It is solely bigness in business which makes it possible to supply the masses with all those products the present-day American common man does not want to do without. Luxury goods for the few can be produced in small shops. Luxury goods for the many require big business.
Ludwig von Mises – The luxury of today is the necessity of tomorrow. Every advance first comes into being as the luxury of a few rich people, only to become, after a time, an indispensable necessity taken for granted by everyone. Luxury consumption provides industry with the stimulus to discover and introduce new, things. It is one of the dynamic factors in our economy. To it we owe the progressive innovations by which the standard of living of all strata of the population has been gradually raised.
Lukas Haas – On a low-budget film, you don’t have all the luxuries.
Lundy Bancroft – If we want abusers to change, we will have to require them to give up the luxury of exploitation.
Lydia Sigourney – Not on the outer world For inward joy depend; Enjoy the luxury of thought…
Lyndon B. Johnson – We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

M. L. Stedman – It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.
Ma Jian – Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.
Madame de Pompadour – It does not matter what happens when we have gone.
Madeleine M. Kunin – I had the incredible luxury of being able to dream on a grand scale. And this sense of infinite possibility gives politics its romance.
Mae West – Women want certain things in marriage–the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury.
Mamie Till – We cannot afford the luxury of self pity. Our top priority now is to get on with the building process. My personal peace has come through helping boys and girls reach beyond the ordinary and strive for the extraordinary. We must teach our children to weather the hurricanes of life, pick up the pieces, and rebuild. We must impress upon our children that even when troubles rise to seven-point- one on life’s Richter scale, they must be anchored so deeply that, though they sway, they will not topple.
Manolo Blahnik – The greatest luxury is being free.
Marc Jacobs – Luxury is about pleasing yourself, not dressing for other people
Marcel Wanders – Luxury starts where functionality ends and where the true value is personal and so has no price or reason.
Marcus Aurelius – The gods gave me a father who ruled over me and rid me of any trace of arrogance and showed me that one can live in a palace without bodyguards, extravagant attire, chandeliers, statues, and other luxuries. He taught me that it is possible to live instead pretty much in the manner of a private citizen without losing any of the dignity and authority a ruler must possess to discharge his imperial duties effectively.
Marian Wright Edelman – 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.
Marisa Miller – Working out is not a luxury, it’s a necessity.
Mariska Hargitay – Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciousness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.
Mark Burnett – One of the greatest freedoms of living in America is being able to ask the question: “If I could do anything I wanted with my life – money being no object – what would I do?” In many parts of the world, people don’t have the luxury of asking that question.

Mark Twain – The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit – how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at every idle moment, how we revel in them, steep our souls in them, intoxicate ourselves with their beguiling fantasies – oh, yes, and how soon and how easily our dream-life and our material life become so intermingled and so fused together that we can’t quite tell which is which, anymore.
Mark Twain – We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.
Marshall McLuhan – A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
Martin Farquhar Tupper – Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
Martin Short – I have a kind of objective luxury about my career.
Martine McCutcheon – I love nice things – I consider Ralph Lauren sheets to be a necessity, not a luxury – but I’ve known what it’s like to be poor.
Mary Mapes Dodge – Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before.
Mason Cooley – When love and adventure are finished, it’s nice to have getting and spending to fall back on.
Mata Amritanandamayi – The real mistake humans have committed lays in the inability to differentiate between requirements and luxuries.
Matthew Williamson – I wanted to start a menswear line of slim-fitting, luxury cashmere jumpers in a range of great colors. I know these jumpers will become season-less staples in my own wardrobe. Cashmere and silk printed scarves and hand-beaded T-shirts compliment the line and form a solid foundation for the collection to grow next season.
Maureen O’Hara – The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.
Max Beckmann – It is, of course, a luxury to create art and, on top of this, to insist on expressing one’s own artistic opinion. Nothing is more luxurious than this. It is a game and a good game, at least for me; one of the few games which make life, difficult and depressing as it is sometimes, a little more interesting.
Melvin Van Peebles – Worry is a funky luxury when a lot has to be done.
Michael Caine – 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 Cera – I don’t think anyone cares whether you’re working or not. I have the luxury now of not having to support anyone and not really needing a whole lot of money.
Michael Kenna – In our fast-paced, modern world, it’s a luxury to be able to watch the stars move across the sky.
Michael Kimmel – It is a luxury not to have to think about race, or class, or gender.
Michael Kimmel – The privilege of privilege is that the terms of privilege are rendered invisible.
Michael Kors – American women often fall into the trap of, “Oh, these are my weekend clothes. These are my work clothes. This is what I wear at night.” It’s so old-fashioned. The French are not afraid of their luxury. Americans can be so puritanical and think, “That’s my special-occasion bag.” Whereas, for a French woman, it’s her everyday bag.
Michael Kors – For me, true luxury can be caviar or a day with no meetings, no appointments and no schedule.
Michael Kors – I think the older I get, the more I realize that the ultimate luxury is time.
Michel de Montaigne – Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation.
Mike Fitzpatrick – Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.
Milton Friedman – Rich people are the experimental ground for every new development. The nature of progress is that what begins as a luxury for the rich becomes a necessity for the poor as it’s developed and passed on.
Miuccia Prada – What people sometimes interpret as quirky is my attempt to subvert the concept of luxury by introducing elements that are considered ordinary or commonplace.
Monita Rajpal – Most brands that are called luxury brands today are not true luxury brands. The globalization of fashion and luxury means you now find the same luxury brands in every city. The stores look the same, the products are the same. It is still a very good quality product but it is now readily available to everyone. It’s a kind of mass luxury.
Mother Teresa – Holiness is not a luxury for the few; it is not just for some people. It is meant for you and for me and for all of us. It is a simple duty, because if we learn to love, we learn to be holy.
Mother Teresa – What you are doing I cannot do, what I’m doing you cannot do, but together we are doing something beautiful for God, and this is the greatness of God’s love for us-To give us the opportunity to become holy through the works of love that we do because holiness is not the luxury of the few.
Myles Munroe – You need to treat your finances as a resource God has provided to fulfill your vision, not a tool to fill your life with luxuries.

Nancy Gibbs – The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it’s through time.
Napoleon Bonaparte – The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.
Nathaniel Branden – Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.
Neil deGrasse Tyson – I think if everyone had the luxury to pursue a life of exactly what they love, we would all be ranked as visionaries and brilliant.
Neil deGrasse Tyson – The greatest of people in society carve niches that represent the unique expression of their combinations of talents. If everyone had the luxury of expressing the unique combination of talents in this world, our society would be transformed overnight.
Nick Jonas – Although I really like the people I travel with, family is just different, and having them around at all times is a really nice thing – and a luxury.
Nicole Kidman – There’s just something about women and shoes, it’s the luxury, it’s the femininity and it’s the attention to detail. You can put a lot of work into your dress but if you have the right shoe and bag then you feel good.
Nora Ephron – In a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.
Norman Bethune – Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade. We are selling bread at the price of jewels… Let us take the profit, the private economic profit, out of medicine, and purify our profession of rapacious individualism… Let us say to the people not ‘How much have you got?’ but ‘How best can we serve you?’
Norman Borlaug – To this day, I enjoy nature, the luxury of undisturbed wilderness, forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and deserts and their wildlife. But I also know that the greatest danger to their perpetuity is the pressure of human population.
Norman Rockwell – Should have had a bicycle then, when I was a kid, but our family didn’t have the money for such luxuries. I saved up to buy one myself a few years later.

O. Henry – If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
Olaudah Equiano – Is it not enough that we are torn from our country and friends, to toil for your luxury and lust of gain? Must every tender feeling be likewise sacrificed to your avarice?
Oliver Goldsmith – And learn the luxury of doing good.
Oliver Goldsmith – O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven’s decree!
Oliver Goldsmith – 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.
Olivia Newton-John – To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn’t hurt.
Orson Scott Card – It’s the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
Orson Welles – Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
Oscar de la Renta – Luxury to me is not about buying expensive things; it’s about living in a way where you appreciate things.
Oscar Wilde – A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
Oscar Wilde – Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.
Oscar Wilde – Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.
Oscar Wilde – I have a simple taste, only the best.
Oscar Wilde – Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!
Oscar Wilde – There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
Otto von Bismarck – The luxury of one’s own opinion.

P. D. James – First-class travel, provided one hasn’t to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life’s luxuries.
Pablo Picasso – 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.
Padma Lakshmi – Whenever I’m in sync with the trends, it’s always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I’ve had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing.
Paige Bradley – Art is not entertainment. Art is not luxury goods. Art is culture. It is you and me.
Pamela Anderson – I’ve been trying to do my boot line for 20 years, but no one thought there could be a vegan luxury brand. So I funded this myself. I feel like it is time. I feel like young people in particular are responding to this.
Pascal Bruckner – Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of step with others, studious idleness, the enjoyment of the major works of the mind–these are all privileges that cannot be bought because they are literally priceless.
Patricia Clarkson – But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
Patrick Dempsey – If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. – wow, what a luxury.
Paul Goodman – The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precisely the system of boondoggling, luxury-consumption, and status.
Paul Johnson – Hell is being trapped in a night-club with the ‘beautiful people’ and forced to live in a ‘luxury penthouse flat’.
Paul Johnson – It takes less than a decade for today’s luxury to become a universal necessity.
Paul McCartney – I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium.
Pete Seeger – John Adams and Thomas Jefferson corresponded for 13 years before they died on the same day. They asked, “How can one have prosperity without commerce? How can one have commerce without luxury? How can one have luxury without corruption? How can you have corruption without the end of the Republic?” And they really didn’t know the answer.
Peter Cook – I’ve always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I’ve got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I’ve got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.
Peter Diamandis – Creating abundance [is] not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it’s about creating a life of possibility.
Peter Singer – There can be no brotherhood when some nations indulge in previously unheard of luxuries, while others struggle to stave off famine.
Peter York – All brands, whether high-ticket luxury ones such as Cartier or Rolls-Royce or ‘masstige’ ones with luxe-y overtones but altogether more affordable, all want to grow. Even brands that may have started in a modestly niche design and lifestyle fashion can find themselves under pressure to go global or to sell out at the top.
Philippe Starck – For me, luxury is intelligence and quality. I don’t see a lot of intelligence and quality in luxury when it’s used to make fast, big money.
Phoebe Philo – We’re in the business of luxury and there’s nothing more luxurious than being good to people, being respectful of them.
Phyllis McGinley – Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly urbane culture. Out of the cave, the tribal teepee, the pueblo, the community fortress, man emerged to build himself a house of his own with a shelter in it for himself and his diversions. Every age has seen it so. The poor might have to huddle together in cities for need’s sake, and the frontiersman cling to his neighbors for the sake of protection. But in each civilization, as it advanced, those who could afford it chose the luxury of a withdrawing-place.
Pico Iyer – For me the first great joy of traveling is simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs and certainties at home, and seeing everything I thought I knew in a different light, and from a crooked angle.
Pico Iyer – Not many years ago, it was access to information and movement that seemed our greatest luxury; nowadays it’s often freedom from information, the chance to sit still, that feels like the ultimate prize. Stillness is not just an indulgence for those with enough resources, it’s a necessity for anyone who wishes to gather less visible resources.
Pierre Dukan – I still live in an apartment in Paris with my wife. No, we don’t have a yacht, but we do have a house in Spain; that is my luxury.
Plato – Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain.
Plato – Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
Plutarch – They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.
Pope Gregory I – And here we must narrowly watch ourselves, seeing that banquets can scarcely be celebrated blamelessly, for almost always luxury accompanies feasting; and when the body is swallowed up in the delight of refreshing itself, the heart relaxes to empty joys.
Prem Rawat – Peace is not a luxury. It’s not an option. It is fundamental to the existence and well-being of a human being to have peace in their life.
Pusha T – For me, I was born in the Bronx, and I moved to Virginia Beach, Virginia at a very young age. I had the luxury of going back to New York, visiting my grandmother who would spoil me endlessly, and I could buy whatever was the hot kicks in the summertime of 1990. Being able to shop and then going back to Virginia Beach, where they weren’t as fast in regards to fashion, I had that luxury.
Pythagoras – If men with fleshly mortals must be fed, and chew with bleeding teeth the breathing bread; what else is this but to devour our guests, and barbarously renew Cyclopean feasts? While Earth not only can your needs supply, but, lavish of her store, provides for luxury; a guiltless feast administers with ease, and without blood is prodigal to please.

Raf Simons – The Dior heritage is so broad. It has a strong presence in the work. So, when people have to define it quickly, it’s, like, the Bar jacket and the movement and the luxury and the Belle Époque and so much more.
Raj Patel – Far from being a “luxury for the rich,” organic farming may turn out to be a necessity not just for the poor, but for everyone.
Ralph Lauren – I’m interested in longevity, timelessness, style – not fashion.
Ralph Rucci – There is a conception in this country about luxurious things that we have to save them for a time that’s right. But an object is truly luxurious if you allow it to be, if you use it. When you live with beautiful things you stimulate your mind, you enjoy life a little bit more.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – It’s a luxury to be understood.
Randy Alcorn – Tolstoy said, ‘The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.’ Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our lives. Our powers of rationalization are unlimited. They allow us to live in luxury and indifference while others, whom we could help if we chose to, starve and go to hell.
Rebecca West – Art is not a luxury, but a necessity.
Redman – Long as I live large, life will be luxury, Ladies in Lamborghinis…love is like luck to me.
Reed Krakoff – When a silhouette or shape is as beautiful as it is functional and relevant, that’s true luxury.
Rem Koolhaas – The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue.
Rene Descartes – He lives well who is well hidden.
Rene Redzepi – I think that in our part of the world, Scandinavia, we are one of the pioneers of showing that gastronomy can be something – high gastronomy can be something very, very present and doesnt have to involve, you know, what is perceived as the normal luxury items that belong in a high gastronomy restaurant.
Renzo Rosso – Diesel pioneered the idea of luxury denim, and we still drive this market. But it encompasses more: the consumers love the brand, the lifestyle, the mentality of Diesel.
Ricardo Guadalupe – We don’t sell a watch to give time. We sell a piece of art. We sell an object that represents something to you, you know. It’s like you have a nice shirt or a nice jacket. It’s like a luxury accessories that can be considered like shoes or like handbags for ladies.
Riccardo Tisci – I do the final fitting because the client wants me there. They’re not spoilt, they really understand that you’re very busy, but they just want you to say what you think – for just ten minutes. They really want to know your opinion because it really is a service at the end of the day, a luxury service.
Riccardo Tisci – I’m very well off but I can stay with normal people. I can do a super-luxury life, but I can do a very normal life and I’m not scared.
Riccardo Tisci – My obsession when I was kid, from ’85 into the ’90s, was Gianni Versace. It was Helmut Lang. It was Margiela. So I said, “I cannot have Givenchy only as a luxury house; I’m going to introduce products for everybody, things that are reachable.”
Richard Dawkins – If we are going to allow ourselves the luxury of postulating organized complexity without offering an explanation, we might as well make a job of it and simply postulate the existence of life as we know it!
Richard Dormer – It’s a real luxury to be able to develop with your character.
Richard Hofstadter – The intellectual’s … playfulness, in its various manifestations, is likely to seem to most men a perverse luxury; in the United States the play of the mind is perhaps the only form of play that is not looked upon with the most tender indulgence. His piety is likely to seem nettlesome, if not actually dangerous. And neither quality is considered to contribute very much to the practical business of life.
Richard Jefferies – I must stay under the old tree in the midst of the long grass, the luxury of the leaves, and the song in the very air. It seems as if I could feel all the glowing life the sunshine gives and the south winds calls into being.
Richard Wilbur – Columbus and his men, they say, Conveyed the virus hither Whereby my features rot away And vital powers wither; Yet had they not traversed the seas And come infected back, Why, think of all the luxuries That modern life would lack.
Rob Conway – Motorola has led the mobile phone industry in turning our vision of low-cost, yet quality, handsets for the developing world into a reality. In so doing, Motorola has played a major role in transforming the mobile phone from a luxury item for the few into an affordable tool for the many.
Rob Machado – At any given time, there are a lot of million-dollar luxury charter boats cruising around the Mentawai Islands finding the most incredible waves. And yet the people on shore are suffering. The whole scene is wrong. As a surf community, we have to do something.
Robert A. Heinlein – Another ingredient in a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first!
Robert Downey, Jr. – I felt it was just there for me as a kind of given, some sort of inherited birthright-when in reality it’s the most magnificent luxury.
Robert Herjavec – I came from a communist country where there are no luxury cars.
Robert Jensen – We do not have the luxury of despair right now. There is too much at stake, for too many people.
Robert Kiyosaki – A true luxury is a reward for investing in and developing a real asset.
Robert Kiyosaki – Don’t buy luxuries until you’ve built the assets to afford them.
Robert Kiyosaki – If you want to be rich, don’t allow yourself the luxury of excuses.
Robert M. Carter – In the luxury segment, if we just focused on fuel economy, that wouldn’t be enough.
Robert M. Carter – The Lexus LS 460 was designed to expand on the definition of the full-size luxury sedan as well as the level of innovative technology, especially as it relates to safety.
Robert M. Sapolsky – We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.
Robert MacNeil – The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.
Robert Musil – Mathematics is the bold luxury of pure reason, one of the few that remain today.
Robert Plant – There’s no comparison between the most precious parts of one’s personal life and success and wealth. If you lost someone near and dear to you, you can’t relate it to any amount of fame, fortune and luxury. You just have to go on living.
Robert Rauschenberg – I never allowed myself the luxury of those brilliant, beautiful colors until I went to India and saw people walking around in them or dragging them in the mud. I realised they were not so artificial.
Robin Leach – In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.
Roger Bannister – Athletics is a luxury.
Roger Bannister – Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.
Roger Moore – It’s easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.
Romain Rolland – All these young millionaires were anarchists, of course: when a man possesses everything it is the supreme luxury for him to deny society: for in that way he can evade his responsibilities.
Romany Malco – For my lifestyle, I believe in living 10 times below my means. As a result of that, I have the luxury of working only when I’m inspired.
Romany Malco – Stillness empowers. Being able to detach from all external stimulants – social media, social engagements, TV, alcohol, food, etc. – and face our own silence is an enormous luxury that should not be taken for granted. The most rewarding moments in my life have stemmed from such stillness.
Ronald J. Sider – Advertisers regularly con us into believing that we genuinely need one luxury after another. We are convinced that we must keep up with or even go one better than our neighbors. So we buy another dress, sports jacket or sports car and thereby force up the standard of living. The ever more affluent standard of living is the god of twentieth century North America and the adman is its prophet.
Roswell Dwight Hitchcock – It is a luxury to learn; but the luxury of learning is not to be compared with the luxury of teaching.
Ruud van Nistelrooy – If you start to find that kind of luxury as a normal thing, you don’t belong in the real world.
Ryan Blair – Until you have enough money accumulated, sacrifice luxury. Sacrifice TV, time out, and even time with your family and friends.
Ryan McGinley – There was no luxury. I never got on an airplane until I was 18. We drove everywhere. My dad was like, “Waste not, want not.”

Sam Keen – Being pretty successful, I can, of course, afford some luxuries. But I realize again and again how we have to disillusion ourselves of the idea that these things are going to give us real satisfaction.
Sammy Davis, Jr. – Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn’t do soul food.
Samuel Adams – In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal which made their ancestors invincible. Every art of corruption would be employed to loosen the bond of union which renders our resistance formidable. When the spirit of liberty which now animates our hearts and gives success to our arms is extinct, our numbers will accelerate our ruin and render us easier victims to tyranny.
Samuel Johnson – A minute analysis of life at once destroys that splendor which dazzles the imagination. Whatsoever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is procured by offices of which the mind shrinks from the contemplation. All the delicacies of the table may be traced back to the shambles and the dunghill; all magnificence of building was hewn from the quarry, and all the pomp of ornament dug from among the damps and darkness of the mine.
Samuel Johnson – As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.
Samuel Johnson – Luxury, so far as it reaches the people, will do good to the race of people; it will strengthen and multiply them. Sir, no nation was ever hurt by luxury; for, as I said before; it can reach but a very few.
Samuel Johnson – Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.
Samuel Johnson – You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
Samuel Richardson – What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
Sandra Cisneros – To this day, on my cheat days from my diet, which are New Year’s Eve and my birthday, I buy luxury foods that are very indicative of my class.
Sara Blakely – We don’t have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it’s important to be with our family and friends.
Sarah Jessica Parker – Fashion is not a luxury, it’s a right.
Sarah McLachlan – It’s an amazing luxury to say I’m 31 years old and I’m gonna take a year off. That’s pretty amazing.
Scott Kahn – The art business is a rarified business and appeals to an audience capable of spending money on a luxury. Too often the atmosphere in a gallery borders on snobbishness.
Seneca the Younger – Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.
Seneca the Younger – It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
Seneca the Younger – It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.
Seneca the Younger – Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
Seneca the Younger – Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.
Seneca the Younger – That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
Seth Rogen – We don’t often have the luxury of time to have these conversations where you just literally get to sit around for day and days and analyze every line of dialogue.
Shana Alexander – A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child’s pony ride.
Shane Claiborne – The Eucharist is a symbol of that as you have bread, the staple food of the poor, and wine, a luxury of the rich, which are brought together at the table.
Sharif Abdullah – We live in a society either scarred by scarcity or spoiled by luxury. We have no idea how much is enough. We don’t know when to quit.
Sherman Alexie – Environmentalism is a luxury. Just like being a vegetarian is a luxury. When you have to worry about eating – you’re not going to be worried about where the food’s coming from, or who made your shoes. Poverty, whether planned or not planned, is a way of making environmentalism moot.
Sheryl Crow – I had the luxury of falling down a few times and picking myself up as a stronger version of myself.
Silvia Cartwright – The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury reserved for the impossibly wealthy.
Silvio Scaglia – We will make La Perla a great international brand for beauty and feminine luxury.
Simon Barnes – A living countryside is not a luxury but a necessity for the human population; if you let conservation go hang until your pockets are jingling there will be a lot less to conserve.
Simon Cowell – What luxury would I take to a desert island? A mirror. It’s true. I’d miss me.
Simon Sinek – It is a luxury to put our interests first. It is an honor to put the interests of others before our own.
Simon Sinek – Returning from work feeling inspired, safe, fulfilled and grateful is a natural human right to which we are all entitled and not a modern luxury that only a few lucky ones are able to find.
Simon Sinek – We all have the luxury of looking out for ourselves. Leaders also have the honor of looking out for others.
Socrates – Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people… contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.
Sonia Rykiel – For me, luxury isn’t just the real thing. It’s also fake. Swarovski crystals or real diamonds? It’s a game. You have to be luxurious nude.
Sophocles – What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman’s excellence?
Stanley Crawford – Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do – or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.
Stefan G. Bucher – All projects are different, but you have to treat each one of them with care. Sometimes you get to build a luxury yacht; other times, it’ll be a rowboat. You still have to make sure the thing doesn’t spring a leak.
Stefano Gabbana – Luxury is not a static concept, but it shapes and changes with society. Now somebody who might not have the time to come to one of our boutiques can shop online.
Stefano Pilati – Luxury must have that over-the-top attitude but be effortless at the same time, that’s what feels chic to me.
Stella Benson – I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it, and I hope we all share it. … I am sure that the great glory of poetry in one’s heart does not wait on achievement.
Stella Vine – Books are my one luxury. I have a lot of large coffee-table-size art books, in the shelves above my bed, about people like Warhol, Basquiat and Velasquez.
Stendhal – 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.
Stephanie Miller – Based on the overwhelming array of luxury products manufacturers have recently introduced, homeowners want anything that makes their lives more comfortable at home. Whether it involves heating/warming accessories or spa-like home environments, it’s part of the ‘cocooning’ phenomena that has resurfaced. People are spending more time at home and they want to be comfortable. They want to use their home to its full potential, not just as a place to eat and sleep between workdays.
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff – But for the vacation with my kids in the Bahamas, I’ll bring a Michael Kors white gauze tunic, white Dolce & Gabbana jeans, Prada sandals, a ring by Iradj Moini, and enamel bracelets from Hermes.
Stephen King – Are you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford, Jack?
Stephen King – Being sorry for myself is a luxury I can’t afford.
Steve Ballmer – A plane is a guilty pleasure. I have one. It’s a great luxury. I appreciate it. I couldn’t do what I do. It’s not something you can write down as anything other than, “Wow, I can’t believe I have this and I’m absolutely spoiled and entitled.” On the other hand, I have one and I use it.
Steve Ballmer – It’s the luxury of time that lets me in some ways now spoil myself. I get my workout in every day. I get a good, long sleep every day. I won’t say they’re guilty pleasures. When I first left Microsoft, I would say I spent the better part of a year saying, “OK, how do I get as busy and crazy and manic as I was at Microsoft?” Since then I said, “No, I’ll make a bigger contribution in this phase of my life by being able to pick and choose, not being so manic, having time to step back, a little more time for what I’ll call discernment rather than just activity.”
Steve Guttenberg – Wanting to work is a luxury; having to work is not. If you’re an artist, an actor, and you don’t have to work, then you do work that you wanna do.
Steven Knight – You know that when you suggest something on the page, it’s going to be there, plus more. It’s a great luxury to know that you don’t have to push it. You just lay it out, and it will be there.
Susan B. Anthony – Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.
Swami Vivekananda – Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible – and this is Art.

T.I. – Our obsession with material things and lack of self-worth is evident in our need for an abundance of momentary luxuries and must-have amenities that have no true value for real, man. And I mean, we do it just to impress people that could care less if your children or your children’s children have anything left to show for your life after you gone.
Tahir Shah – Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.
Tamara Mellon – I often get the question from people, “well how can you sell luxury at that price?” What I’m explaining to everyone is I’m still paying the same factory cost as I paid when they were $800. I pay the same as my competitors who are in the luxury space pay, I just don’t mark them up as much because I haven’t put them in a wholesale channel. I don’t have to put that extra margin on them.
Tamara Mellon – I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.
Tennessee Williams – Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
Theodor Adorno – Rampant technology eliminates luxury, but not by declaring privilege a human right; rather, it does so by both raising the general standard of living and cutting off the possibility of fulfilment.
Therese Anne Fowler – There was no way to know that certainty would one day become a luxury, too.
Thomas Carlyle – It will be a luxury to die in hemp.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton – We can do without any article of luxury we have never had; but when once obtained, it is not in human natur’ to surrender it voluntarily.
Thomas Jefferson – I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.
Thomas Jefferson – The remaining revenue on the consumption of foreign luxuries to domestic comforts, being collected on our seaboard and frontiers only, and incorporated with the transactions of our mercantile citizens, it may be the pleasure and the pride of an American to ask, What farmer, what merchant, what laborer ever sees a tax gatherer of the United States?
Thomas Jefferson – The science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic equation and the use of logarithms are often of value in ordinary cases: but all beyond these is but a luxury; a delicious luxury indeed; but not be in indulged in by one who is to have a profession to follow for his subsistence.
Thomas Malthus – Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for the necessaries, conveniences, and luxuries of life, than a single proprietor possessing a hundred thousand a year.
Thomas Moore – It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
Thomas S. Monson – Avoid the philosophy and excuse that yesterday’s luxuries have become today’s necessities. They aren’t necessities unless we ourselves make them such. . . . It is essential for us to live within our means.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson – How much that the world calls selfishness is only generosity with narrow walls, a too exclusive solicitude to maintain a wife in luxury, or make one’s children rich.
Thornton Wilder – The future is the most expensive luxury in the world.
Tim Ferriss – Luxury is feeling unrushed. It is designing a life that allows you to do what you want with high leverage, with many options, all while feeling unrushed.
Tim Ferriss – Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.
Tim Ferriss – Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.
Tom Clancy – Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.
Tommy Hilfiger – Fashion is about affordable luxury … To succeed, designers need to be affordable, wearable, accessible, and aspirational.
Trish Stratus – As far as luxury goes, about the only thing I do is… I go first class all the way. I live on the road, so when I’m out there, I’m getting the nice hotel suite, I’m getting the luxury car, I’m eating the good food, and I make sure I take care of myself on the road.
Trudi Canavan – Happy endings are a luxury of fiction.
Twyla Tharp – I think that anyone who’s pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It’s a luxury.

Unknown – A luxurious lifestyle should be the aspiration for everyone with a pulse.
Unknown – Exclusivity! Always taking VIP tours, any place, any time, on any luxury vacation. That’s the way to live a luxurious lifestyle!
Unknown – When you indulge in a luxurious lifestyle, every moment is beautiful and every breath is refreshing.
Ursula K. Le Guin – Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive. In the middle category, however – that of the unnecessary but undestructive, that of comfort, luxury, exuberance, etc.

Vandana Shiva – Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.
Vera Caspary – It’s when you have friends that you can afford to be lonely. When you know a lot of people, loneliness becomes a luxury. It’s only when you’re forced to be lonely that it’s bad.
Vera Wang – Service is a prerequisite for anything relating to luxury. That makes it (shopping) sensual and pleasurable.
Vilfredo Pareto – Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but do not produce.
Vince Staples – I just make what I’m making, and then one day I won’t want to make it anymore. I think that’s a luxury we should be able to have as people, especially as artists.
Viola Davis – 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.
Virginia Postrel – The glamour of air travel – its aspirational meaning in the public imagination – disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.
Virginia Woolf – Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know.
Vita Sackville-West – The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of the amateur, concerned with the creation of beauty rather than with the providing of food. Gardening is a luxury occupation; an ornament, not a necessity, of life.
Voltaire – Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

W. H. Auden – Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone.
Walter Bagehot – 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 Kirn – Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes.
Walter Weyl – We are developing new types of destitutes-the automobileless, the yachtless, the Newportcottageless. The subtlest luxuries of today reaches very high in the social scale… The end of it all is vexation of spirit.
Warren Buffett – I’m happy when I can spend every day doing the things that I like to do. That’s my luxury.
Warren Farrell – It would be hard to find a single example in history in which a group that cast more than 50 percent of the vote got away with calling itself the victim… Women are the only ‘oppressed’ group to share the same parents as the ‘oppressor’; to be born into the middle class and upper class as frequently as the ‘oppressor’; to own more of the culture’s luxury items than the ‘oppressor’.
Warren Farrell – This is the first time in history that we’ve had this level of luxury, so we have a new opportunity to rethink the way we approach God.
Washington Irving – Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are excluded from the banquet. Plenty revels over the fields; but they are starving in the midst of its abundance: the whole wilderness has blossomed into a garden; but they feel as reptiles that infest it.
Wentworth Miller – A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another’s face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.
Will Durant – Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
Will Rogers – George Washington was quite a farmer. He was a farmer, Civil Engineer and gentleman. He made enough at civil engineering to indulge in both the other luxuries.
Will Rogers – Get a sales tax, small on necessities and large on luxuries; then a stiff inheritance tax on the fellow that saves and don’t spend. That will get him either way. A tax paid on the day you buy is not as tough as asking you for it the next year when you are broke.
William Arthur Ward – The more we count the blessings we have, the less we crave the luxuries we haven’t.
William Cowper – Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs, And luxury the accomplish’d Sofa last.
William Cowper – The fall of waters and the song of birds, And hills that echo to the distant berds, Are luxuries excelling all the glare The world can boast, and her chief favorites share.
William Ellery Channing – No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.
William Gibson – For me, the melancholy of the late 20th Century is walking late at night by the Mont Blanc pen store and seeing these things always strike me as simulacra of luxury items. They seem like fakes.
William Hazlitt – Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.
William Henry Vanderbilt – The public be damned! (on whether the public should be consulted about luxury trains Aug 1918)
William Morris – You may hang your walls with tapestry instead of whitewash or paper; or you may cover them with mosaic; or have them frescoed by a great painter: all this is not luxury, if it be done for beauty’s sake, and not for show: it does not break our golden rule: Have nothing in your houses which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
William Wordsworth – There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.
Wim Wenders – For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.
Wynton Marsalis – Art is a luxury. It’s not necessary for you to – you can work your job and you can make some money and never know who Walt Whitman was, and never read a poem.

Zac Posen – The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right way.

Conclusion

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