Luxury Quotes - Page 15

• Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity

  Coco Chanel

  Lying, Absence, Richness

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• There’s a lot of things wrong with this country, but one of the few things still right with it is that a man can steer clear of the organized bullshit if he really wants to. It’s a goddamned luxury, and if I were you, I’d take advantage of it while you can.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Country, Men, Bullshit

  Hunter S. Thompson, Douglas Brinkley (2000). “Fear And Loathing In America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Listen to me: Life is not about principles; it`s about happiness.` `But if you don`t have any principles, and if you don`t have faith, you can`t be happy at all,` said Kadife. `That`s true. But in a brutal country like ours, where human life is cheap, it`s stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.` `Actually, it`s the other way round. In a poor country, people`s sole consolation comes from their beliefs.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Country, Stupid, Rich Countries

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• The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.

  Colum McCann

  Giving Up, Vanity, Age

  Colum McCann (2013). “TransAtlantic”, p.119, A&C Black

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• Let me tell you what I do know: I am more than one thing, and not all of those things are good. The truth is complicated. It’s two-toned, multi-vocal, bittersweet. I used to think that if I dug deep enough to discover something sad and ugly, I’d know it was something true. Now I’m trying to dig deeper. I didn’t want to write these pages until there were no hard feelings, no sharp ones. I do not have that luxury. I am sad and angry and I want everyone to be alive again. I want more landmarks, less landmines. I want to be grateful but I’m having a hard time with it.

  Richard Siken

  Grateful, Writing, Thinking

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• When you dance you can enjoy the luxury of being you.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dance, Enjoy, Witch Of Portobello

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• The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Happiness, Real, Pleasure Seeking

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• All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Parent, Politics

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• Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Politics, Dinner

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

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• The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Relationship, Money, Letting You Go

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book For Free Spirits 2: Human Book”, p.43, 谷月社

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• To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.

  Bill Bryson

  Life, Summer, Travel

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• Men are a luxury, not a necessity.

  Cher

  Love, Break Up, Breakup

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• High self-esteem isn't a luxury. It's a necessity for anyone who has important goals to achieve.

  Jack Canfield

  Self Esteem, Goal, Important

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Apr 05, 2011

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• I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Happiness, Would Be, Carefree

  Nan Fairbrother (1965). “The House”

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• Until relatively recently, mass political movements were still about basic rights of food, shelter, education and self sufficiency. The reasons fewer people vote these days, or turn up for political meetings, is that for the vast majority of us those rights have been fulfilled. These days it's in the adverts for mobile phones or foreign holidays where phrases like "Join the Revolution!" and "Cry Freedom!" are bandied about for a generation which knows nothing of their provenance. Just as now we have luxury illnesses to replace real ones, so now we have luxury politics.

  John Diamond

  Real, Holiday, Rights

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• The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion forbade the accumulation of wealth and the enjoyment of luxury... Furthermore, it was the rule of his life to share the fruits of his skill and success with his less fortunate brothers. Thus he kept his spirit free from the clog of pride, cupidity, or envy, and carried out, as he believed, the divine decree-a matter profoundly important to him.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Success, Brother, Native American

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• So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

  Henry George

  Real, Long, House

  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.12, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Order, Want, Way

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• Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute a sign of ignorance and brutality which cannot be painted over even by all the evidence of wealth and luxury.

  Alexander von Humboldt

  Ignorance, Animal, People

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• Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.

  George Gissing

  Acceptance, Compassion, Often Is

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.25, The Floating Press

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• Rich people buy luxuries last, while the poor and middle class tend to buy luxuries first.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Money, Class, People

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from May 16, 2013

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• The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

  John D. Rockefeller

  Money, Business, Wealth

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Aristocracy, Ruins, Chivalry

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1831). “The poetical works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats”, p.387

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• In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Wealth, Made, Affluent

  'The Affluent Society' (1958) ch. 21

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• The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live in luxury, but the bargain is a good one for society.

  William Graham Sumner

  Wages, Agents, Getting High

  William Graham Sumner (1914). “The challenge of facts: and other essays”

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