Luxury Quotes - Page 10

• No one but an adventurous traveler can know the luxury of sleep.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Sleep, Adventurous, Traveler

  Benjamin Disraeli (2010). “Vivian Grey”, p.405, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Many a man has risen to eminence under the powerful reaction of his mind in fierce counter-agency to the scorn of the unworthy, daily evoked by his personal defects, who with a handsome person would have sunk into the luxury of a careless life under the tranquillizing smiles of continual admiration.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Powerful, Men, Agency

  Thomas De Quincey, James Thomas Fields (1854). “De Quincey's Writings: Essays on philosophical writers and other men of letters. 1854-60. [v. 14 stereotyped”, p.142

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• 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.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mother, Art, Father

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• Many people seem to think that art is a luxury to be imported and tacked on to life. Art springs out of the very stuff that life is made of. Most of our young authors start to write a story and make a few observations from nature to add local color. The results are invariably false and hollow. Art must spring out of the fullness and richness of life.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Spring, Writing

  Willa Cather (1990). “Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters”, p.47, U of Nebraska Press

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• If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and there would be neither vanity nor luxury in such a state.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Christian, Vanity, Law

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• A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Civilization, Selfishness, Ease

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.227

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• 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.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Two, Gardening, Ornaments

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• 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.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Children, Wall, Generosity

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2007). “Outdoor Studies, Poems”, p.234, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.

  Joseph Addison

  Heart, Pride, Men

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• Although we sometimes did without a few of life's necessities, we rarely lacked for its luxuries.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Sometimes

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• If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries.
  [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mother, Wish, Remove

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• 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 Armstrong

  Sunshine, Light, Soul

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• the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Reading, Bed, Sitting

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1938). “My Days”

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• Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Poverty, Expensive

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• The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the impression of its liveliest wit or most passionate impulses, a thousand times adorning or feeling all as it goes; and you must read it, as the healthy instinct of audiences almost always does, if the critics will let them alone, with a grain of allowance, and a tendency to go away with as much of it for use as is necessary, and the rest for the luxury of laughter, pity, or poetical admiration.

  Leigh Hunt

  Running, Laughter, Drama

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• Perhaps you say, Why are the wicked joyous? Why do they live in luxury? Why do they not toil with me? It is because they who have not put down their names to strive for the crown are not bound to undergo the labors of the contest. They who have not gone down into the race-course do not annoint themselves with oil nor get covered with dust. For those whom glory awaits trouble is at hand. The perfumed spectators are wont to look on, not to join in the struggle, nor to endure the sun, the heat, the dust, and the showers.

  Bill Vaughan

  Struggle, Race, Dust

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• There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude. If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.

  Bill Vaughan

  Distance, Convincing Evidence, Solitude

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• Ever since childhood I have scorned the commonplace limits so often set upon human ambition. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone; best both for the body and the mind

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Ambition, Simple

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.227, Princeton University Press

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• Fashion is about affordable luxury ... To succeed, designers need to be affordable, wearable, accessible, and aspirational.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Fashion, Needs, Succeed

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• Another ingredient in a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first!

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Happy Marriage, Ingredients, Firsts

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• 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

  Fashion, Art, Real

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Journeys, Adventures & Life in Harmony with Nature – 6 Book Collection (Illustrated): Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada & Canoeing in the Wilderness - North American Highlands Series”, p.257, e-artnow

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• Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Agriculture, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.25

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• 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 David Thoreau

  Dream, Simplicity, Soul

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.547, Simon and Schuster

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• With a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

  John Steinbeck

  People, Want, Admiration

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.474, Penguin

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• Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.

  Calvin Trillin

  Income, Should

  Calvin Trillin (2009). “Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater”, p.49, Random House

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