Luxury

The superfluity of the rich is necessary to the poor. If you hold on to superfluous items, then, your are keeping what belongs to someone else.

— Luxury

If we singled out a brand for each product category to make it a luxury icon, we would have Krug or Dom Perignon for champagne, Guerlain for fragrance and cosmetics, Hermès for leather goods, and maybe, in ladies' ready-to-wear, Armani or Valentino. For men's suits, Brioni could be the ultimate luxury, and Van Cleef & Arpels could be considered a special and distinctive brand of jewelry.

— Luxury

It is monstrous for one to live in luxury while many are in want.

— Luxury

Where could I find enough leather to cover the whole earth? But by the leather of one pair of sandals the earth will be covered.

— Luxury

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ouselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us.

— Luxury

Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury.

— Luxury

To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back.

— Luxury

Sofas 'twas half a sin to sit upon,You could glide o'er them like a golden fish.

— Luxury

Blest hour! It was a luxury—to be!

— Luxury

O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree.

— Luxury

Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt:It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.

— Luxury

Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: "Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries."

— Luxury

Fell luxury! more perilous to youthThan storms or quicksands, poverty or chains.

— Luxury

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.

— Luxury

On his weary couchThat through his lattice peeped derisively.

— Luxury

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.

— Luxury

Rings put upon his fingers,Would not the beggar then forget himself?

— Luxury

Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.

— Luxury

Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?

— Luxury