Quotes about Luxury

He lay down upon a sumptuous divan, and proceeded to instruct himself with honest zeal.

and as we lay and smoked the pipe of peace and compared all this luxury with the years of tiresome city life that had gone before it, we felt that there was only one complete and satisfying happiness in the world, and we had found it.

And such a luxury to him was this petting of his sorrows, that he could not bear to have any worldly cheeriness or any grating delight intrude upon it; it was too sacred for such contact...

If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then we give up the core -- the fountain -- of our power, our womanness; we give up the future of our worlds. (From Poetry is Not a Luxury)

Moulmein for food, Mandalay for conversation, Rangoon for ostentation

Why, the man is rich as wedding-cake.

If money could buy happiness, the rich would not drown their sorrows in expensive wine.

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word luxury.

I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hair.

The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.