Luxury Quotes - Page 31

• Luxury, that alluring pest with fair forehead, which, yielding always to the will of the body, throws a deadening influence over the senses, and weakens the limbs more than the drugs of Circe's cup.

  Claudius Claudianus

  Drug, Pests, Body

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• The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render happy may, with a book in his hand, forget all his torments under the friendly shade of every tree; and experience pleasures as infinite as they are varied, as pure as they are lasting, as lively as they are unfading, and as compatible with every public duty as they are contributory to private happiness.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Reading, Book, Men

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• Luxury, like a minimum wage, is a relationship; it changes as we change.

  Vida Dutton Scudder

  Minimum Wage, Minimum

  Vida Dutton Scudder (1939). “The privilege of age: essays secular and spiritual”

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• A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Book, Lovers, Egotistical

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1860). “The Complete Works of L.E. Landon”, p.5

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• Nothing more strongly marks the insufficiency of luxuries than the ease with which people grow accustomed to them; they are rather known by their want than by their presence. The word 'blasé' has been coined expressly for the use of the upper classes.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Class, People, Use

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “The Works of L. E. Landon: In Two Volumes”, p.118

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• A room to myself is a luxury that I do not always enjoy.

  Frances Harper

  Rooms, Enjoy

  Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frances Smith Foster (1990). “A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader”, p.133, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times.
  [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Vices, Manners

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• I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury. I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Air, Pay, Conformity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.280, Harvard University Press

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• Physical force has no value, where there is nothing else. Snow in snow-banks, fire in volcanoes and solfataras is cheap. The luxury of ice is in tropical countries, and midsummer days. The luxury of fire is, to have a little on our hearth; and of electricity, not the volleys of the charged cloud, but the manageable stream on the battery-wires. So of spirit, or energy; the rests or remains of it in the civil and moral man, are worth all the cannibals in the Pacific.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Men, Fire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2282, Delphi Classics

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• Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

  Joni Mitchell

  Heart, Order, Magic

  Malka Marom, Joni Mitchell (2014). “Joni Mitchell: Both Sides Now”, p.146, Omnibus Press

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• God is not a luxury you can't afford; He's a necessity you truly cannot live without!

  Monica Denise Brown

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• We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.

  Benito Mussolini

  Class, Deny, Internationalism

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• It is a pity that you students aren't fully aware of the luxury and abundance in which you live.

  Hermann Hesse

  Students, Abundance, Pity

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.280, Macmillan

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• The primary dues a writer or any artist pays is to remain sentient, and to forfeit the illusionary luxury of such anesthetics as avoidance, numbness, and denials.

  Vanna Bonta

  Artist, Numbness, Denial

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• America does not have the luxury of withdrawing from the world, our security, and our prosperity, and our values demand that we remain engaged and involved in -- often distant places.

  Jeb Bush

  America, Doe, World

  "Jeb Bush's Tough Talk on Foreign Policy". abcnews.go.com.

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• At present I feel like a caged animal, bound up by the luxury, comfort and respectability of my position. I can't get the training that I want without neglecting my duty.

  Beatrice Webb

  Animal, Training, Comfort

  Beatrice Webb, Jeanne MacKenzie (1982). “The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Glitter Around and Darkness Within, 1873-1892”, Belknap Press

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• Entranced by promises of a material paradise of limitless luxury, humanity has too long ignored the mismatch between the imperatives of our existence as living beings on a finite planet and the imperatives of the institutions of money that chart our path to the future. Created to build colonial empires in service to kings, global corporations are ill suited to the task of building just, sustainable, and compassionate civil societies that nurture sufficiency, partnership, and respect for the whole of life.

  David Korten

  Kings, Long, Humanity

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• In the older view the goddess Universe was alive, herself organically the Earth, the horizon, and the heavens. Now she is dead, and the universe is not an organism, but a building, with gods at rest in it in luxury: not as personifications of the energies in their manners of operation, but as luxury tenants, requiring service. And Man, accordingly, is not as a child born to flower in the knowledge of his own eternal portion but as a robot fashioned to serve.

  Joseph Campbell

  Children, Flower, Men

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• Man has sought to take from the natural world not only that which is necessary for his stability and survival, but often seeks to satisfy his perceived and ultimately false psychological needs, such as his need for self-display, luxuries and the like. Twenty percent of humanity consumes eighty percent of the world's wealth and is accountable for an equal percentage of the world's ecological catastrophes.

  Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople

  Men, Self, Psychological Needs

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• The goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, People, Taxes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2920, Delphi Classics

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• Education is not a luxury in modern American society-it is essential for survival.

  John M. Perkins

  Survival, Essentials, Modern

  John M. Perkins (1993). “Beyond Charity: The Call to Christian Community Development”, p.93, Baker Books

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• But for me, dinner at a fine restaurant was the ultimate luxury. It was the very height of civilization. For what was civilization but the intellect's ascendancy out of the doldrums of necessity (shelter, sustenance and survival) into the ether of the finely superfluous (poetry, handbags and haute cuisine)? So removed from daily life was the whole experience that when all was rotten to the core, a fine dinner could revive the spirits. If and when I had twenty dollars left to my name, I was going to invest it right here in an elegant hour that couldn't be hocked.

  Amor Towles

  Civilization, Names, Ifs And

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• When I started out, I was a television writer, and we wrote a television show that was on live every week. And you didn't have the luxury of coming in and waiting to be inspired. You came in and you had to write. And you wrote, because it was going to be live on the air. So I can do that.

  Woody Allen

  Writing, Air, Waiting

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• I don't want to indulge myself in the luxury of writing beautiful paragraphs just for the sake of making beautiful writing. That doesn't interest me. I want everything to be essential.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Beautiful, Writing, Essentials

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Enlightenment, Needs, Fundamentals

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 13, 2011.

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