Luxury Quotes - Page 26

• I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers - because males have got to try and justify their existence.

  Orson Welles

  Sex, Thinking, Bird

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• No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism, to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Loss, Heartless, Growth

  Nobel Lecture, delivered 5 May 2010, Oslo, Norway

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• I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity.

  Jil Sander

  Simplicity, Convinced

  "No-frill thrills: Jil Sander is back". www.interviewmagazine.com. March 17, 2009.

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• If men with fleshly mortals must be fed, and chew with bleeding teeth the breathing bread; what else is this but to devour our guests, and barbarously renew Cyclopean feasts? While Earth not only can your needs supply, but, lavish of her store, provides for luxury; a guiltless feast administers with ease, and without blood is prodigal to please.

  Pythagoras

  Men, Blood, Breathing

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• George Washington was quite a farmer. He was a farmer, Civil Engineer and gentleman. He made enough at civil engineering to indulge in both the other luxuries.

  Will Rogers

  Engineering, Indulge In, Agriculture

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• Get a sales tax, small on necessities and large on luxuries; then a stiff inheritance tax on the fellow that saves and don't spend. That will get him either way. A tax paid on the day you buy is not as tough as asking you for it the next year when you are broke.

  Will Rogers

  Years, Next Year, Way

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• We must face the fact that many today are notoriously careless in their living. This attitude finds its way into the church. We have liberty, we have money, we live in comparative luxury. As a result, discipline has disappeared. What would a violin solo sound like if the strings on the musician's instrument were all hanging loose, not stretched tight, not disciplined?

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Attitude, Discipline

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• In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal which made their ancestors invincible. Every art of corruption would be employed to loosen the bond of union which renders our resistance formidable. When the spirit of liberty which now animates our hearts and gives success to our arms is extinct, our numbers will accelerate our ruin and render us easier victims to tyranny.

  Samuel Adams

  Art, War, Numbers

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• I've weaned myself down to about, on a great day, on a really great day, three cigarettes. For a nicotine junkie the essential cigs are three: the first-of-the-day cigarette smoked after lunch, the after-dinner cigarette and then the one taken whenever you want - the luxury-wild-card smoke. It used to be quite a bit more. It used to be, I'd smoke the table. I'd smoke the patch. I'd smoke the gum. So I feel good about it.

  Johnny Depp

  Taken, Lunch, Alcohol

  "The two Johnnies". www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2005.

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• I wanted to start a menswear line of slim-fitting, luxury cashmere jumpers in a range of great colors. I know these jumpers will become season-less staples in my own wardrobe. Cashmere and silk printed scarves and hand-beaded T-shirts compliment the line and form a solid foundation for the collection to grow next season.

  Matthew Williamson

  Hands, Color, Slim

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• The gods gave me a father who ruled over me and rid me of any trace of arrogance and showed me that one can live in a palace without bodyguards, extravagant attire, chandeliers, statues, and other luxuries. He taught me that it is possible to live instead pretty much in the manner of a private citizen without losing any of the dignity and authority a ruler must possess to discharge his imperial duties effectively.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Father, Arrogance, Citizens

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Crystal Cruises has individually crafted each European cruise itinerary to provide a rich combination of destinations with more overnight stays and more time in ports. Whether taking a shorter seven-day jaunt or combining several unique cruises to create the ultimate European exploration, luxury travelers will enjoy the grandeur of Europe and the warmth and luxury of the Crystal experience.

  Bill Smith

  Unique, Europe, Crystals

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• Too many?pass judgement on wartime decisions in the luxury of a peacetime environment.

  Harry S. Truman

  Decision, Judgement, Environment

  1963 Reply to a Boston University official who had criticized Truman's use of the atomic bomb. Truman Library archives, 23 Sep.

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• Mathematics is the bold luxury of pure reason, one of the few that remain today.

  Robert Musil

  Today, Reason, Mathematics

  Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.41, University of Chicago Press

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• I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not so opposed to capitalism that I have failed to see its relative merits. It started out with a noble and high motive, to block the trade monopolies of nobles, but like most human systems it falls victim to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has outlived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Block, Fall, Class

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• Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!

  Bill Vaughan

  Believe, Civilization, Giving

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• Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Marriage, Men, Way

  "Speech on Social Purity". Spring 1875.

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• Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.

  Joseph Conrad

  Opulence, Firsts, Protection

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad: 20 Novels & 26 Short Stories (Including Memoirs, Essays & Letters in One Single Edition): Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists: Heart of Darkness, The Duel, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, The Shadow-Line & Under Western Eyes”, p.2018, e-artnow

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• Because we have this whole other human being we have to think about other than ourselves. We had the luxury before of being totally self-centered.

  Will Arnett

  Thinking, Self, Humans

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's a luxury to have so much time, especially with someone so important and busy. You have to get a feel for the person.

  Igor Babailov

  Important, Busy, Feels

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• I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.

  David Chipperfield

  Ideas, Acting, Architect

  "David Chipperfield Talks Architecture and Luxury". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.architecturaldigest.com. January 31, 2013.

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• Forget luxury; as a great company you have to keep evolving.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Forget, Evolve, Great Company

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• Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall-porters.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Honor, Halls, Honour

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Slavery

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.153

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• The intellectual's ... playfulness, in its various manifestations, is likely to seem to most men a perverse luxury; in the United States the play of the mind is perhaps the only form of play that is not looked upon with the most tender indulgence. His piety is likely to seem nettlesome, if not actually dangerous. And neither quality is considered to contribute very much to the practical business of life.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Men, Play, Mind

  "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life". Book by Richard Hofstadter (p. 33), 1974.

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