Quotes about Luxury

Religious illiteracy is a luxury they can no longer afford. This is a new idea for them—that illiteracy might be a problem in religion as well as English—or that a religion class might have life applications beyond going to church.

The mother of the useful arts is necessity, that of the fine arts is luxury; for father the former have intellect, the latter, genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.

It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. (Sebastian Barnack assessing a Roederer 1916 champagne in Time Must Have a Stop)

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.

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)

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.