"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."

Bagehot, Walter · Luxury · 0 fans >>
Blog it, Share it with someone, or Email it

"When you're not used to comfort and good things to eat, you're intoxicated by them in no time. Truth's only too pleased to leave you. Very little is ever needed for Truth to let go of you. And after all, you're not really very keen to keep hold of it."

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand · Luxury · 1 fans >>
Blog it, Share it with someone, or Email it

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

Chaplin, Charlie · Luxury · 6 fans >>
Blog it, Share it with someone, or Email it

"It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh."

Durkheim, Emile · Luxury · 0 fans >>
Blog it, Share it with someone, or Email it

"For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life."

Greenfield, Albert · Luxury · 1 fans >>
Blog it, Share it with someone, or Email it

"Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) · Luxury · 0 fans >>
Blog it, Share it with someone, or Email it

"Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies."

Montesquieu, Charles De · Luxury · 1 fans >>
Blog it, Share it with someone, or Email it

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

More, Hannah · Luxury · 3 fans >>
Blog it, Share it with someone, or Email it

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

Motley, John L. · Luxury · 0 fans >>
Blog it, Share it with someone, or Email it

"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."

Thoreau, Henry David · Luxury · 0 fans >>
Blog it, Share it with someone, or Email it

This quote can be viewed in the context of a book