Luxurious Quotes - Page 5

• Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Men, Sick

  Essays, Second Series "New England Reformers" (1844)

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• But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event.

  Janet Suzman

  Thinking, Theatre, Affluence

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• I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them.

  Epicurus

  Sake, Pleasure, Spit

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• In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the citizens of a free republic may be prompted by a principle of duty; the subjects, or at least the nobles, of a monarchy, are animated by a sentiment of honor; but the timid and luxurious inhabitants of a declining empire must be allured into the service by the hopes of profit, or compelled by the dread of punishment.

  Edward Gibbon

  Military, War, Army

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “EDWARD GIBBON Premium Collection: Historiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters: Including "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.731, e-artnow

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• Luxurious kings are to their people lost,
  They live like drones, upon the public cost.

  John Dryden

  Kings, People, Drones

  John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott (1808). “The Works of John Dryden,: The life of John Dryden”, p.228

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• How sad it is when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self defense to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in things attainable that it may not have leisure to go mad after things that are not.

  John Keats

  Self, Mad, Imagination

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters of John Keats”

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• Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Wisdom, Republic, Politics

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• I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious time with it. But desire persecuted me every day and all day long. I found myself hunting for larger cigars...within the month my cigar had grown to such proportions I could have used it as a crutch.

  Mark Twain

  Hunting, Long, Waiting

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.18, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

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• 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.

  Max Beckmann

  Depressing, Art, Luxury

  Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.304, University of Chicago Press

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• Where the environment is too soft and luxurious and no strife is required for survival, not only are weak strains and individuals allowed to survive and encouraged to breed but the strong types also grow fat mentally and physically.

  Madison Grant

  Strong, Survival, Environment

  Madison Grant (2012). “The Passing of the Great Race”, p.30, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights. There may be something in this theory, but when their amusements are carried to such a point of luxurious and imaginative perfection it certainly gives them great and even unlimited enjoyment at the time.

  Ada Leverson

  Children, Pie, Giving

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• And another question was unfortunately not asked of Göring: 'The German people put faith in you even if they doubted Hitler because you were gentlemanly and more likable. What did you, Göring, do to justify this confidence? You have led a luxurious life and collected stolen art.

  Hermann Goring

  Art, People, Stolen

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• If you live in a small space, you should do the things that make it feel luxurious.

  Emily Procter

  Space, Should, Feels

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• Try as much as you can to mention death.  For if you were having hard times in your life, then it would give you more hope and would ease things for you.  And if you were having abundant affluence of living in luxury, then it would make it less luxurious.

  Umar

  Hard Times, Luxury, Giving

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• It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization.

  Derek Jacobi

  Distance, Civilization, Hard Life

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• 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 Balazs

  Luxury, Movement, Being There

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• I really wanted my creams to feel luxurious and have a beautiful finish, and it's harder to do that with natural ingredients.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Beautiful, Ingredients, Natural

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents opportunities, and uplifts him whom she would inform. The apple that she drops at the feet of Newton is but a coy invitation to follow her to the stars.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Uplifting, Nature, Stars

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.78

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• We’re in the business of luxury and there’s nothing more luxurious than being good to people, being respectful of them.

  Phoebe Philo

  Luxury, People, Respectful

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• I like working in both movies and television. Television is faster, not very much rehearsal and a lot of material is shot in a day. Big budget movies are luxurious in terms of the schedule. Independent films often shoot fast as well.

  Juliet Landau

  Independent, Schedules, Television

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Stockholm is very, like, posh and uptight, and everything should be so luxurious and refurbished.

  Karin Dreijer Andersson

  Uptight, Should, Posh

  "Fever Ray". Interview with Marc Hogan, pitchfork.com. March 30, 2009.

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• Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Humility, Size

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment.

  Kelly Wearstler

  Opposites, Two, Rawness

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• Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Vanity, Law

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories”, p.101, Penguin

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• I just love to go home, no matter where I am, the most luxurious hotel suite in the world, I love to go home.

  Michael Caine

  Home, World, Matter

  "Michael Caine interview: My wife is more beautiful than my screen lovers so I've never strayed". www.mirror.co.uk. February 12, 2009.

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