Luxury Quotes

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

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.

It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.

Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.

We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.

But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.

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.

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not doing it intentionally to be evil. Here we are sitting in luxury hotels, living it up on the the backs of others in the third world. We all have a guilty conscience, but we do very little about it.

But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.

It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.

I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life.

We insist that the international community cannot depend on any country with weapons of mass destruction which has relations with terrorists, and which allows itself the luxury of not respecting the law and of defying the international community.

I love everything from old-school cars to whatever the latest muscle or luxury vehicles are.

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.

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England.

Reading is my greatest luxury.

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.