Quotes about Luxury
Wine is bottled poetry.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings us today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle do
- Leland Ryken
Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
- Samuel Johnson
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Albert Einstein
Man's highly developed color sense is a biological luxury—inestimably precious to him as an intellectual and spiritual being, but unnecessary to his survival as an animal.
- Aldous Huxley
Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.
- Marcus Aurelius
He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Gloria was sure she wanted but to read and dream and be fed tomato sandwiches and lemonades by some angelic servant still in a shadowy hinterland. Between paragraphs Anthony would come and kiss her as she lay indolently in the hammock….
- F Scott Fitzgerald
He writes because for him doing so is a luxury, the more agreeable and conspicuous the fewer who but and read what he writes.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.
- Anonymous
Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have.
- Anonymous