Luxury Quotes - Page 35

• I drink sherry and wine by myself because I like it and I get the sensuous feeling of indulgence...luxury, bliss, erotic-tinged.

  Sylvia Plath

  Wine, Erotic, Feelings

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• Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Comfort, Add, Revenue

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.

  Oscar Wilde

  God Bless, Can Do, I Can

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• It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with 'nature's laws', and secondly, resigning himself completely and uncomplainingly to whatever fate may send him. Only by living thus, and not setting too high a value on things which can at any moment be taken away from him, can he discover that true, unshakeable peace and contentment to which ambition, luxury and above all avarice are among the greatest obstacles.

  Seneca the Younger

  Taken, Mean, Ambition

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• Of what use is the universe? What is the practical application of a million galaxies? Yet just because it has no use, it has a use - which may sound like a paradox, but is not. What, for instance, is the use of playing music? If you play to make money, to outdo some other artist, to be a person of culture, or to improve your mind, you are not really playing - for your mind is not on the music. You don't swing. When you come to think of it, playing or listening to music is a pure luxury, an addiction, a waste of valuable time and money for nothing more than making elaborate patterns of sound.

  Alan Watts

  Thinking, Artist, Swings

  "The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are" by Alan Watts, (p. 92), 1966.

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• You have to be holy in your position as you are, and I have to be holy in the position that God has put me. So it is nothing extraordinary to be holy. Holiness is not the luxury of the few. Holiness is a simple duty for you and for me. We have been created for that.

  Mother Teresa

  Simple, Holiness, Holy

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• The Indians with surprise found the mouldering trees of their forests suddenly teeming with ambrosial sweet; and nothing, I am told, can exceed the greedy relish with which they banquet for the first time upon this unbought luxury of the wilderness.

  Washington Irving

  Sweet, Tree, Firsts

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• Instead of saving for someone else's college education, I'm currently saving for a luxury retirement community replete with golf carts and handsome young male nurses who love butterscotch.

  Jen Kirkman

  Retirement, Golf, College

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• Ministers must read. We are required to read not as a luxury but as a necessity.

  Haddon W. Robinson

  Ministers

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• A poor man cannot rival the rich in luxury of life, but he can in luxury of knowledge. He cannot furnish his house as the wealthy can, but he can furnish his head. He cannot found a house of note, but he may found a mind of mark. Though some kingdoms may be adorned or afflicted with kings, learning has always been a republic, where all are equal who know.

  George Holyoake

  Kings, Men, House

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• A pleasant natural environment is a good - a luxury good, philosophical good, a moral goody-good, a good time for all. Whatever, we want it. If we want something, we should pay for it, with our labor or our cash. We shouldn't beg it, steal it, sit around wishing for it, or euchre the government into taking it by force.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Philosophical, Government, Want Something

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.204, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• [The Goths'] poverty was incurable; since the most liberal donatives were soon dissipated in wasteful luxury, and the most fertile estates became barren in their hands.

  Edward Gibbon

  Hands, Poverty, Goth

  Edward Gibbon (1820). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.8

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• Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war.

  Edward Gibbon

  Art, War, Government

  Edward Gibbon (1871). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.22

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• When you shoot a movie so quickly you can't really afford to shoot a bunch of extra footage because you don't have that luxury.

  Patrick Wilson

  Bunch, Extras

  Source: collider.com

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• As the leader of a country, you are not free to enjoy the luxury of such feelings. The Afghan people want peace, which requires persistence. We are determined to defend our country, and the whole region and the entire world understands the justice of our cause and the principled way in which we have engaged in it.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Country, Persistence, Justice

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

  Noam Chomsky

  Latin, Sea, America

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• Pain does not create a long-lasting memory, but the memory of luxury exerts itself for ever.

  Paul Theroux

  Pain, Memories, Long

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific”, p.517, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every innovation makes its appearance as a 'luxury' of the few well-to-do. After industry has become aware of it, the luxury then becomes a 'necessity' for all.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Innovation, Appearance, Wells

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• Affordable luxury - these are two words that don't go together.

  Bernard Arnault

  Two, Together, Affordable

  "LVMH Chairman & CEO Bernard Arnault Speaks with CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" Today". "Squawk on the Street", www.cnbc.com. May 6, 2014.

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• Luxury is nice, but creativity is nicer.

  Lena Dunham

  Nice, Creativity

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.114, Random House

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• In a sense, what's happening is that the unconscious mind is a luxury the human species cannot afford at this point in our dilemma, and so the unconscious mind is simply rising into consciousness by being hardwired into this global infrastructure.

  Terence McKenna

  Mind, Rising, Consciousness

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• All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly which can - and must - be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a "perfect society" on any foundation other than "Women and children first!" is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly - and no doubt will keep trying.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Children, Perfect, Doubt

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.225, Penguin

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• Makeup should have one function only - to make you look better, to make you more attractive...Makeup is a luxury, so it should be fun...Making up is like telling yourself a secret.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Fun, Makeup, Should Have

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• I told myself that I would not come back to women's fashion until I felt I had something new to say. I feel that fashion has become too serious and that the actual customer's needs have not really been addressed. Fashion needs to make one happy. It is a luxury and should enhance one's quality of life.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Quality, Serious

  "In V: Julia Restoin-Roitfeld's Self Portraits Whilst Wearing Tom Ford". Interview with Julia Restoin-Roitfeld, www.racked.com. December 23, 2010.

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• Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Incidents

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