Luxury Quotes

Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing.

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.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

In my early years, there were a number of experiences that made me decide I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. There were a number of issues I wanted to address. And I wanted to use my career as a platform.

Telephones are a virtual necessity - not a luxury - and the revenues collected by this tax flow into the general fund. But this once temporary tax remains and costs American taxpayers, our small businesses and families almost $6 billion dollars a year.

I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.

This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.

Layers are not difficult for me. You have the luxury of takes, so if you feel like, say, you did not take in the fact that your aunt is across the way in one take, you do it again and try to add that piece.

For me, true luxury can be caviar or a day with no meetings, no appointments and no schedule.

We are the last remaining country to allow ourselves two breaks in the season. You just have to look at England, Italy and Spain, they play right through the season. We on the other hand take six weeks off in the winter until the end of January, and that is a luxury.

I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.

Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.

I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.

You have to be hopeful that people will be more educated in how they buy things, and hopefully more luxury brands will start to think that way on a longer-term basis.

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.

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.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

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.

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?

When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury.

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.

If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second World War - they have all been creative reinventions, the moment new forms of luxury come into play.