Luxury Quotes

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury of being able to do a studio film and an independent afterwards was fantastic.

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.

I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

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.

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.

I don't think any actor has the luxury of knowing exactly what scripts are going to turn out well and what ones aren't. It would be wonderful to have that particular skill, and maybe people like Tom Cruise have it more than most, but you go into each project hoping that a good, if not great, film will come out the other end.

I don't have the luxury of making clothes just to make an effect. It can't be something totally frivolous, because my distributors have to have a successful season, too.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

We've turned down multi million dollar films, simply because we liked the film better. We have the luxury to do so - we have projects that make the money, and others that we do for love.

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.

If you start to find that kind of luxury as a normal thing, you don't belong in the real world.

I think there is something about luxury - it's not something people need, but it's what they want. It really pulls at their heart.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.

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.

Athletics is a luxury.

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

There's definitely a luxury to the fluidity of not being a mega-star. I've done a ton of really, really odd, off-the-wall movies. There's this movie I did called 'Queens of Country' a couple of summers ago that is so bananas, and if I was at a certain level, I probably would not have done that movie.

I have a kind of objective luxury about my career.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal.

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

We've got a wood-burning pizza oven in the garden - a luxury, I know, but it's one of the best investments I've ever made.