Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.
Roger Bannister

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
Tennessee Williams

Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.
Henry Home

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
Coco Chanel

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
Charles de Montesquieu

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
Hannah More

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 B. Adams

My husband travels a lot with his job, so we have a lot of frequent flyer miles so we can hop on a plane with no notice. That's a nice luxury and he is very supportive.
Jeri Ryan

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
Rem Koolhaas

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
Andrew Young

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury.
Anish Kapoor

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
George Eliot

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
Martin Farquhar Tupper

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
Golda Meir

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Reading is my greatest luxury.
Louise Brown