luxury quotes

The ordinary 'horseless-carriage' is at present a luxury for the wealthy; and although the price will probably fall in the future, it will never, of course, come into as common use as the bicycle.

-Anonymous
  Literary Digest,14 Oct.

I believe that style is the only real luxury that is really desirable.

- Giorgio Armani
Attributed.

Thus first necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs, And luxury the accomplished sofa last.

-William Cowper
  The Task, bk.1,'The Sofa', l.86^8.

   He tried the luxury of doing good.

- George Crabbe
  Tales of the Hall,'Boys at School', l.139.

Thus fares the land, by luxury betrayed.

- Oliver Goldsmith
  The Deserted Village, l.295.

The root of Evil, Avarice That damn'd ill-natur'd, baneful Vice, Was Slave to Prodigality, That noble Sin; whilst Luxury Employed a Million of the Poor, And odious Pride a Million more; Envy itself, and Vanity, Were Ministers of Industry; Their darling Folly, Fickleness, In Diet, Furniture and Dress That strange ridic'lous Vice, was made That very Wheel that turned theTrade.

- Bernard Mandeville
  The Fable of the Bees, or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits (2nd edn.).

For where money is the standard of everything, many vain, superfluous trades are bound to be carried on simply to satisfy luxuryand licentiousness.

- SirThomas More
  Utopia (English translation1556), bk.2.

Every luxury was lavished on you atheism, breast- feeding, circumcision.

-Joe originally John Kingsley Orton
  Loot, act1.

   Love is like any other luxury.You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

- Anthony Trollope
  TheWayWe Live Now, ch.84.

Too many†pass judgement on wartime decisions in the luxury of a peacetime environment.

- Harry S Truman
  Reply to a Boston University official who had criticized Truman's use of the atomic bomb.Truman Library archives, 23 Sep.