(525 quotes found)
“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.”
Helen Keller
“It is impossible to overdo luxury”
French Proverb
“The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.”
Leontyne Price
“I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars -- it's a luxury I can't afford.”
Pablo Picasso
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about”
Charles Kingsley
“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving”
George Eliot
“Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”
Coco Chanel
“Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.”
Dalai Lama
“The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
G. K. Chesterton