(525 quotes found)
“Anger can be an expensive luxury”
Italian Proverb
“Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich”
Oscar Wilde
“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.”
Marshall McLuhan
“Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.”
Christy Mathewson
“Morality is a private and costly luxury”
Henry Brooks Adams
“Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world”
Cesare Pavese
“He covered page after page with wild words of sorrow and wilder words of pain. There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.”
“Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it”
Ted Morgan
“The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar, / All now was turned to jollity and game,/ To luxury and riot, feast and dance.”
John Milton
“Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
