There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
Don Marquis

This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.
James Forrestal

Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.
Olivia Newton-John

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.
John Betjeman

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.
Doug Larson

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
Hannah Arendt

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

We are the last remaining country to allow ourselves two breaks in the season. You just have to look at England, Italy and Spain, they play right through the season. We on the other hand take six weeks off in the winter until the end of January, and that is a luxury.
Franz Beckenbauer

We do not have the luxury of two big oceans protecting us as we have had in the past, for we now have a new kind of enemy who deals with stealthiness. Our ability to protect ourselves is having the information ahead of time so we can thwart the attack.
Bill Nelson

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
Lyndon B. Johnson

We insist that the international community cannot depend on any country with weapons of mass destruction which has relations with terrorists, and which allows itself the luxury of not respecting the law and of defying the international community.
Jose Maria Aznar

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
Jean de La Fontaine

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.
Arthur Erickson

We've turned down multi million dollar films, simply because we liked the film better. We have the luxury to do so - we have projects that make the money, and others that we do for love.
Mark Mothersbaugh

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
Sophocles

What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.
Anthony Crosland

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!
Agnetha Faltskog

Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury of being able to do a studio film and an independent afterwards was fantastic.
Rachel True

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
Edward Abbey