| Author |
Quotes |
| Albert Einstein | 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. |
| Arthur Helps | The greatest luxury of riches is, that they enable you to escape so much good advice. |
| Cesare Pavese | Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world. |
| Charles De Montesquieu | Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies. |
| Charlie Chaplin | The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. |
| Edward Payson | 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 Young | On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired. |
| Edward Young | On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired. |
| Francis Quarles | Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail. |
| George Eliot | One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. |
| George William Curtis | Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge. |
| Hannah More | Fell luxury! more perilous to youth Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains. |
| Hannah More | 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 | Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities. |
| Henry Home | Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor. |
| James Thomson | Falsely luxurious, will not man awake? |
| John Crowne | War destroys men, but luxury destroys mankind; at once corrupts the body and the mind. |
| John L Motley | Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries. |
| Leontyne Price | The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do. |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | Give us the luxuries of life and we'll dispense with the necessaries. |
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