Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind
Henry David Thoreau
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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
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Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up
Orson Welles
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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.
Leontyne Price
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I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.
Coco Chanel
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Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.
Doug Larson
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To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his
snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that
has never a shirt on his back.
Tom Brown
Quotes , Source: Laconics
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Sofas 'twas half a sin to sit upon,
So costly were they; carpets, every stitch
Of workmanship so rare, they make you wish
You could glide o'er them like a golden fish.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Quotes , Source: Don Juan (canto V, st. 65)
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Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt:
It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.
Oliver Goldsmith
Quotes , Source: Haunch of Venison
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Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my
friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: "Give us
the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Quotes , Source: Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (VI)
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Fell luxury! more perilous to youth
Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains.
Hannah More
Quotes , Source: Belshazzar
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Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are,
and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart,
enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices.
Hannah More
Quotes , Source: Essays--Dissipation
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Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its
necessities.
Hannah More
Quotes , Source: Essays--Dissipation
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On his weary couch
Fat Luxury, sick of the night's debauch,
Lay groaning, fretful at the obtrusive beam
That through his lattice peeped derisively.
Robert Pollok
Quotes , Source: Course of Time (bk. VII, l. 69)
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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
Quotes , Source: at the London College of Fashion, in the International Fashion Press Bulletin
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Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey
in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.
Francis Quarles
Quotes , Source: Emblems (bk. I, Hugo)
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What think you, if he were conveyed to bed,
Wrapped in sweet clothes, rings put upon his fingers,
A most delicious banquet by his bed,
And brave attendants near him when he wakes,
Would not the beggar then forget himself?
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Lord at induction, i)
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Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Lord at induction, i)
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