Luxury Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

44 Luxury Quotes
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“Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?”
James Thomson (1) Quotes
Source: Seasons--Summer
“On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired.”
Edward Young Quotes
“The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.”
Charlie Chaplin Quotes
“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 Quotes
“Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.”
Charles de Montesquieu Quotes
“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.”
George Eliot Quotes
“Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.”
Cesare Pavese Quotes
“The greatest luxury of riches is, that they enable you to escape so much good advice.”
Arthur Helps Quotes
“Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.”
John L. Motley Quotes
“The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.”
Leontyne Price Quotes
“Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.”
George William Curtis Quotes
“Luxury is the first, second and third cause of the ruin of republics. It is the vampire which soothes us into a fatal slumber while it sucks the lifeblood of our veins.”
Edward Payson Quotes
“Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.”
Henry Home Quotes
“On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired.”
Edward Young Quotes
“Give us the luxuries of life and we'll dispense with the necessaries.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
“War destroys men, but luxury destroys mankind; at once corrupts the body and the mind.”
John Crowne Quotes
“Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.”
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
“Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury--to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best for both the body and the mind.”
Albert Einstein Quotes
“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes