A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
Henry Ward Beecher

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
Marshall McLuhan

A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.
Wentworth Miller

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
Walter Bagehot

Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.
William Allen White

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
George William Curtis

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.
Augusten Burroughs

As far as luxury goes, about the only thing I do is... I go first class all the way. I live on the road, so when I'm out there, I'm getting the nice hotel suite, I'm getting the luxury car, I'm eating the good food, and I make sure I take care of myself on the road.
Trish Stratus

Athletics is a luxury.
Roger Bannister

Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.
Mike Fitzpatrick

But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.
Polly Toynbee

But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
Patricia Clarkson

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity.
Niklaus Wirth

But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.
Bea Arthur

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
James Madison

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.
Mariska Hargitay

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.
H. Rap Brown

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.
Dodie Smith

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
Edsger Dijkstra

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
Cesare Pavese