Luxury Quotes

"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."
-Oscar Wilde

"No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies."
-Dean Acheson

"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

"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."
-G. K. Chesterton

"Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win."
-Lois McMaster Bujold

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

"One must be poor to know the luxury of giving."
-George Eliot

"We looked into what do you do to make a real luxury community. What are those buyers looking for? This is a trend we spotted a couple of years ago."
-Sondra Guffey

"The bottom line is we'll have luxury apartments, not ... warehouses."
-Karl Brendle

"Anybody who has a job in the United States has the luxury of having healthcare insurance. Almost everyone, because of the healthcare costs, has to begin contributing to that cost."
-Richard Maloney

"I think it's an affordable luxury. It's really an interesting form of entertainment."
-Rich Melman

"No one realized back then that it was a luxury to be able to spread it."
-Rick Bishop

"I think the challenge in transforming an industrial brand into a luxury brand should not be underestimated."
-Claire Kent

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

"I've never been in love with the luxury tax. I think that goes without saying."
-Billy Hunter

"R.J. is a hell of a player. He's definitely more than capable. That's the luxury of having three guys like that -- because of games just like this one."
-Scott Padgett

"The tragic events of September 11 have clouded the global economic environment and trading conditions in the luxury goods industry."
-Domenico De Sole

"The height of progress, when people's propensity to strive for what is dispensable begins to interfere with what is indispensable, is called luxury."
-Immanuel Kant

"It's two teams who know nothing about each other. Here, we won't have the luxury of preparation."
-Keith Walker

"Today we are a runaway train that goes nowhere but luxury lane."
-Patricia Harris

"Losing Solomon for the last four minutes of the game was huge for us. We are not very deep so we don not have the luxury of having one or two of our better players getting in foul trouble."
-Robert Mccullum

"When your ass is on the block, politics is a luxury."
-Steven Bochco

"I think this gives you the luxury that you can use either one."
-Tony Nathan

"Japanese consumers are highly brand-conscious. If the goal [of Lexus in Japan] is to be a true luxury brand up against European premium brands, it won't be an easy task."
-Tatsuo Yoshida

"One of the great things about working at a large international law firm is the very deep resources. You have the luxury of taking on cases you've never handled before."
-Dan Petrocelli

"Well, it was a match, and I haven't slept in 2 1/2 weeks. We are going to have some fun. There are definitely some luxury vacations in our future."
-Hugh Hawkins

"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

"If we would have remodeled, we would have done major remodeling and turned them into luxury apartments."
-Leroy Maxwell Jr