Luxury quotes

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◆ I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.

- Coco Chanel100

◆ It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.

- Garrison Keillor99

◆ Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up

- Orson Welles99

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

- Cesare Pavese99

◆ Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries

- John Lothrop Motley99

◆ I always thought I should be treated like a star.

- Madonna99

◆ Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

- Leontyne Price99

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

- Dodie Smith99

◆ The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.

- Arthur Helps99

◆ Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

- Robert A Heinlein99

◆ The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

- Charlie Chaplin99

◆ Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

- Coco Chanel99

◆ Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind

- Henry David Thoreau99

◆ Morality is a private and costly luxury

- Henry Brooks Adams99