Luxury Quotes - Page 5

• Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Significant Things, Architecture, Rejects

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• The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right way.

  Zac Posen

  Dirty, Media, Way

  FaceBook post by Zac Posen from Apr 05, 2012

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• It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.

  Garrison Keillor

  Air, Empires, Barbarians

  "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations". Book by James B. Simpson, p. 211, 1988.

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• A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Emotional, Feelings, Desire

  Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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• Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Taken, Coquetry

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• Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.

  Boyd Rice

  Lying, Caring, Unique

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• Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Suicidal, Glory, Irresponsible

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.359, Baen Books

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• I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wine, Thinking, Errors

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.100, Cosimo, Inc.

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• God is a luxury I can't afford.

  Martin Landau

  Money, I Can

  "Fictional character: Judah Rosenthal". "Crimes and Misdemeanors", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

  Lana Del Rey

  Dream, Writing, Thinking

  "Ice Breaker: Lana Del Rey". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. October 6, 2011.

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• Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.

  William Wordsworth

  Happiness, Disrespect, Excess

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.349

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• Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Riches, Poor, Possession

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.45, Courier Corporation

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• They must know but little of mankind who can imagine that, after they have been once seduced by luxury, they can ever renounce it.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Littles, Imagine, Renounce

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• I know it is more agreeable to walk upon carpets than to lie upon dungeon floors, I know it is pleasant to have all the comforts and luxuries of civilization; but he who cares only for these things is worth no more than a butterfly, contented and thoughtless, upon a morning flower; and who ever thought of rearing a tombstone to a last summer's butterfly?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Morning, Tombstone

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.98

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• Success financially is a measure of creative success, it is the same in all arts.

  Stella McCartney

  Art, Creative

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• The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Money, Imagination, Greed

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Art is not a luxury, but a necessity.

  Rebecca West

  Art, Art Is

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.110, Open Road Media

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• What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?

  Sophocles

  House, Excellence, Prosperous

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• O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Heaven, Decree

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.588

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• One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

  George Eliot

  Money, Giving, Generosity

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2974, ShandonPress

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• It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

  Amy Tan

  Writing, Thinking

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• We see no where the pernicious effects of luxury on a republic more than in that of the ancient Romans, who immediately found itself poor as soon as this vice got footing among them, though they were possessed of all the riches in the world.

  Joseph Addison

  Vices, Ancient, Poor

  "The Works of Joseph Addison".

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• Some people think happiness is a luxury, but its a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life.

  Christie Brinkley

  Thinking, Space, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Hours

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1857). “Poetical and Dramatic Works”, p.420

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• What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.

  Anthony Crosland

  Generations, Next

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