Luxury Quotes
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.Luxury
Bagehot, Walter
1826-1877 British Economist Critic
When you re not used to comfort and good things to eat, you re intoxicated by them in no time. Truth s only too pleased to leave you. Very little is ever needed for Truth to let go of you. And after all, you re not really very keen to keep hold of it.
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Celine, Louis-Ferdinand
1894-1961 French Author
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
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Chaplin, Charlie
1889-1977 British Comic Actor Filmmaker
It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.
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Durkheim, Emile
1858-1917 French Sociologist
For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life.
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Greenfield, Albert
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
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Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
c55-c130 Roman Satirical Poet
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Montesquieu, Charles De
1689-1755 French Jurist Political Philosopher
Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
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More, Hannah
1745-1833 British Writer Reformer Philanthropist
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.
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Motley, John L.
1814-1877 American Historian
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.
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Thoreau, Henry David
1817-1862 American Essayist Poet Naturalist
On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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Young, Andrew
1932 Civil Rights Activist Protestant Minister Public Official