Luxury Quotes - Page 22

• Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Accomplish Nothing, Excess, Defeat

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Fried (1965). “A Day of Dedication”, New York : Macmillan [1965]

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• I think it makes small difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All that is an empty glorification left for those who live.

  Euripides

  Differences, Littles, Empty

  "Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion".

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• An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Age, Pleasure, Social

  "The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli. Chapter 8, 1795.

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• The mere pronunciation of the word luxurious feels lush, luxuriant.

  Lady G

  Pronunciation, Feels, Mere

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• Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.

  Livy

  Evil, Ruins, States

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• Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Dream, Sweet, Philosopher

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1990). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Men, Soul

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• How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Self, Order, Deception

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• For me, luxury is intelligence and quality. I don't see a lot of intelligence and quality in luxury when it's used to make fast, big money.

  Philippe Starck

  Design, Quality, Used

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• All brands, whether high-ticket luxury ones such as Cartier or Rolls-Royce or 'masstige' ones with luxe-y overtones but altogether more affordable, all want to grow. Even brands that may have started in a modestly niche design and lifestyle fashion can find themselves under pressure to go global or to sell out at the top.

  Peter York

  Fashion, Design, May

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• We've been sold a concept of joy through advertising. It was somehow sold to us through a Gucci bag or something.

  Kanye West

  Fashion, Oxford, Joy

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• Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.

  Iggy Azalea

  Fashion, Bed, Details

  "Ten Questions: Iggy Azalea". Interview with Yale Breslin, www.elle.com. December 18, 2012.

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• I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to overcome all the difficulties. One thing is certain, however, that never in life have I been quite so tormented. A great respect for mathematics has been instilled within me, the subtler aspects of which, in my stupidity, I regarded until now as pure luxury.

  Albert Einstein

  Learning, Science, Discovery

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• Luxury is...to be able to take control of one's life, health, and the pursuit of happiness in a way that is joyful.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Inspiration, Pursuit Of Happiness, African American

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• The experience of life is very bitter. it is sweet only in imagination. In its reality it is very bitter. He escaped from the palace and the women and the riches and the luxury and everything.

  Rajneesh

  Sweet, Reality, Imagination

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• Then from the world all spirituality will be extinct, all moral perfection will be extinct, all sweet-souled sympathy for religion will be extinct, all ideality will be extinct; and in its place will reign the duality of lust and luxury as the male and female deities, with money as its priest, fraud, force, and competition its ceremonies, and the human soul its sacrifice. Such a thing can never be.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sweet, Sacrifice, Perfection

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1744, Manonmani Publishers

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• Luxury is about pleasing yourself, not dressing for other people

  Marc Jacobs

  People, Dressings

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• It’s one thing if you are a luxury brand and have been around for 60 years and can weather the retail storm we’ve had, but if you are a new brand that’s just starting out — whether you are a writer or a retailer — innovating through social media is crucial. Those that are hidden and guarded will not progress.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Years, Weather, Media

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• Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class.

  Jeff Koons

  Dog, Class, Abstraction

  "From Full Phantom Five". "Parkett", Nr. 19, (p. 45), 1989.

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• I’ve been really blessed to have a lot of romance in my life. It’s like my last luxury.

  Lana Del Rey

  Blessed, Romance, Lasts

  "Lana Del Rey Interview - JustJared.com Exclusive!". JustJared Interview, www.justjared.com. November 13, 2012.

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• The past is the luxury of proprietors.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Past

  "Nausea". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1938.

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• It's not a luxury if you can't do without it!

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Ifs

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• Miles Davis, his parents migrated from Arkansas to Illinois, where he had the luxury of being able to practice for hours upon hours. He never would have been able to do that in the cotton country of Arkansas.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Country, Illinois, Practice

  "Journalist Isabel Wilkerson". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 6, 2010.

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• Luxury and Ostentation usually make me feel antsy, like I'm going to get a case of gout.

  Stephan Jenkins

  Gout, Cases, Feels

  "He can see clearly now / Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins looks at success, love, creativity". Interview with Julian Guthrie, www.sfgate.com. April 20, 2003.

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• Self-pity is the simplest luxury.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Self, Pity, Simplest

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Bingo”, p.280, Bantam

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