424 Quotes About Luxury

"It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't afford to play — the product of idleness and immoral ease. In the grip of that feeling it isn't life we pursue, but the point and purpose of life — its facility, its use."

"I am something of a connoisseur of the country pile and I must say {he} had done himself remarkably well. At a guess I would say it was from the reign of Queen Anne and had been bunged up by some bewigged ancestor awash with loot from the War of the Spanish Succession or some such lucrative away fixture."

"In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow. And in an age of distraction, nothing is so luxurious as paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is so urgent as sitting still."

"Sensuality begins where necessity ends."

"Sensuality is a luxury not everyone can afford to have."

"Never confuse luxury with necessity."

"Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!"

"Well has Solomon said-"Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith." I would not now have exchanged Lowood with all its privations, for Gateshead and its daily luxuries."

"The irony of life emerges when two categories of men give advises regarding contempt for worldly goods. One, the rich, who do not know at first hand, what is poverty and another, the poor, who never know, from personal experience, what is luxury."