#Luxury Quotes

“I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.”

“Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.”

“The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.”

“Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.”

“The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.”

“It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.”

“No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism, to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.”

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

“And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)”

“Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.”

“It's great to have a private jet. Anyone that tells you that having your own private jet isn't great is lying to you.”

“A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.”

“The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.”

“Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.”

“Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary.”

“I am in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, great activist-type artists. But I'm also in the lineage of a Miles Davis - you know, that liked nice things also.”

“The only luxury is time. The time you get to spend with your family.”

“Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.”

“People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.”

“Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up”

“You buy a Ferrari when you want to be somebody. You buy a Lamborghini when you are somebody.”

“I think it makes small difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All that is an empty glorification left for those who live.”

“Limousines used to be reserved for the ruling class, or, on special occasions, for the working class. Today, limousines are like taxicabs with the door handles still intact.”

“the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.”

“Champagne is simply one of the elegant extras of life.”

“A fat kitchin, a lean Will.”

“In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were not much more difficult to satisfy than those of the brute. Hence luxury in all its forms; delicate food, the use of tobacco and opium, spirituous liquors, fine clothes, and the thousand and one things that he considers necessary to his existence.”

“If you're a guest [at my $113 million house], you'll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any image you like - presidential portraits, reproductions of High Renaissance paintings, pictures of sunsets, airplanes, skiers in the Andes, a rare French stamp, the Beatles in 1965.”

“I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.”