Luxury Quotes - Page 17

• Elegance is a question of personality, more than one's clothing.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Fashion, Personality, Elegance

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• [The democratization of luxury] means more people are going to get better fashion. And the more people who can have fashion, the better.

  Anna Wintour

  Fashion, Mean, People

  "Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster". Book by Dana Thomas, 2007.

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• It is a luxury to put our interests first. It is an honor to put the interests of others before our own.

  Simon Sinek

  Kindness, Honor, Firsts

  Twitter post from Oct 30, 2013

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• Generations of women have sacrificed their lives to become their mothers. But we do not have that luxury any more. The world has changed too much to let us have the lives our mothers had. And we can no longer afford the guilt we feel at not being our mothers. We cannot afford any guilt that pulls us back to the past. We have to grow up, whether we want to or not. We have to stop blaming men and mothers and seize every second of our lives with passion. We can no longer afford to waste our creativity. We cannot afford spiritual laziness.

  Erica Jong

  Daughter, Mother, Spiritual

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• My very sassy, older southern sister is very quick to point out that it's a luxury that my daughter gets to come to work with me. She does, and I have lunch with her every single day. My mom says I have 'high class problems.'

  Angela Kinsey

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

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• As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as only a graceful appendage of wealth, and the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard. This is the real disposition of human nature; it is what neither the honorable member nor myself can correct. It is a common misfortunate that awaits our State constitution, as well as all others.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Real, Hands, Riches

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc”, p.443

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• In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury with a thousand eunuch servants at his command. "What happens when you do wrong?" his brother asks. "When I do wrong, someone else is punished," the boy emperor replies. To demonstrate, he breaks a jar, and one of the servants is beaten. In Christian theology, Jesus reversed that ancient pattern: when the servants erred, the King was punished. Grace is free only because the giver himself has borned the cost.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Religious, Brother

  Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.67, Harper Collins

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• Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should be able to afford it.

  Barack Obama

  Education, Money, Able

  "Newsroom", www.cnn.com. June 21, 2012.

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• Oh the Broom, the yellow Broom,
  The ancient poet sung it,
  And dear it is on summer days
  To lie at rest among it.
  I know the realms where people say
  The flowers have not their fellow;
  I know where they shine out like suns,
  The crimson and the yellow.
  I know where ladies live enchained
  In luxury's silken fetters,
  And flowers as bright as glittering gems
  Are used for written letters.
  But ne'er was flower so fair as this,
  In modern days or olden;
  It groweth on its nodding stem
  Like to a garland golden.

  Mary Howitt

  Summer, Lying, Flower

  Mary Botham Howitt, “The Broom Flower”

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• Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Giving

  Oscar Wilde (1999). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, Holt McDougal

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• Worry is a funky luxury when a lot has to be done.

  Melvin Van Peebles

  Worry, Done, Funky

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• Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby.

  Paul-Jean Toulet

  Love, Hotel, Rate

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• Americans have the mistaken viewpoint that Lady Liberty is only a peacetime luxury who is ill-equipped to fight the nasties. Therefore, they reason, we need an equally nasty Big Brother. Americans have forgotten that Lady Liberty is one ferocious mother when protecting her children.

  Mary Ruwart

  Mother, Brother, Children

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• If physicists could not quote in the text, they would not feel that much was lost with respect to advancement of knowledge of the natural world. If historians could not quote, they would deem it a disastrous impediment to the communication of knowledge about the past. A luxury for physicists, quotation is a necessity for historians, indispensable to historiography.

  J. H. Hexter

  Communication, Knowledge, Science

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• The flight of most members of a profession to the high empyrean, where they can work peacefully on purely scientific problems, isolated from the turmoil of real life, was perhaps quite appropriate at an earlier stage of science; but in today's world it is a luxury we cannot afford.

  Gerald Holton

  Real, Science, Research

  Gerald James Holton (1998). “The Scientific Imagination: With a New Introduction”, p.250, Harvard University Press

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• The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or desire of preserving them leads to laws and social institutions. The discovery of peculiar arts gives superiority to particular nations ... to subjugate other nations, who learn their arts, and ultimately adopt their manners;- so that in reality the origin as well as the progress and improvement of civil society is founded in mechanical and chemical inventions.

  Humphry Davy

  Art, Science, Reality

  Sir Humphry Davy (1840). “Salmonia: or, Days of fly-fishing; in a series of conversations: with some account of the habits of fishes belonging to the genus Salmo. Consolation in travel, or, The last days of a philosopher”, p.351

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• Luxury is an obstacle, and so is the fatness of the body.

  Umar

  Inspiring, Body, Obstacles

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• Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?

  David R. Brower

  Years, Energy, Hazards

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• Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.

  Vandana Shiva

  Diversity, Survival, Ecology

  Vandana Shiva (2005). “Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace”, p.94, Zed Books

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• Investing in [children] is not a national luxury or a national choice. It's a national necessity. If the foundation of your house is crumbling, you don't say you can't afford to fix it while you're building astronomically expensive fences to protect it from outside enemies. The issue is not are we going to pay - it's are we going to pay now, up front, or are we going to pay a whole lot more later on.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Issues, House

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• It is a luxury to learn; but the luxury of learning is not to be compared with the luxury of teaching.

  Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

  Teacher, Teaching

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• Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to our progress. Our life is frittered away by detail. I say let your affairs be as two or three, not a hundred or a thousand. And keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Two, Progress, Comfort

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• For too long the development debate has ignored the fact that poverty tends to be characterized not only by material insufficiency but also by denial of rights. What is needed is a rights-based approach to development. Ensuring essential political, economic and social entitlements and human dignity for all people provides the rationale for policy. These are not a luxury affordable only to the rich and powerful but an indispensable component of national development efforts.

  Kofi Annan

  Powerful, Rights, Long

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• Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

  Charles Dickens

  Book, Fall, Beer

  Barnaby Rudge Ch. 7

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• It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Courage, Grief, Recovery

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