Luxury Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Luxury.
Top Quotes
“Extravagance”
“Blest hour! It was a luxury—to be!”
“Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?”
“O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree.”
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“Wikipedia: Luxury”
“Fell luxury! more perilous to youth
Than storms or quicksands, poverty or chains.”
“The long anticipated luxury, once enjoyed, becomes a necessity that must needs be gratified.”
“Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt:
It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.”
“There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us.”
“Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.”
“Where could I find enough leather to cover the whole earth? But by the leather of one pair of sandals the earth will be covered.”
“The superfluity of the rich is necessary to the poor. If you hold on to superfluous items, then, your are keeping what belongs to someone else.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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?”
“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.”
“Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922), pp. 484-85”
“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.”
“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."”