Luxuries Quotes

“Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.”

“If you cannot afford yourself any luxuries for the time being, at least offer yourself the one priceless luxury no one can take away from you – your time”

“Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.”

“We come here (literally) reaching for intimacy and love. But it seems soon after our arrival, we're made to believe that they're luxuries not necessities.”

“To become a better you, be willing to make the needed sacrifice. Don’t spend your money on luxuries.”

“You know? Ain’t it ironic how we live our entire lives without the luxury of time, only to spend an eternity in death.”

“Don’t spend your money on luxuries. Save it and secure a safe future. Don’t crave for quick satisfaction.”

“One of the few luxuries left is travel. And the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.”

“Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.”

“Twenty million people are underfed but literally everyone in England has access to a radio. What we have lost in food we have gained in electricity. Whole sections of the working class who have been plundered of all they really need are being compensated, in part, by cheap luxuries which mitigate the surface of life.Do you consider all this desirable? No, I don't. But it may be that the psychological adjustment which the working class are visibly making is the best they could make in the circumstances. They have neither turned revolutionary nor lost their self-respect; merely they have kept their tempers and settled down to make the best of things on a fish-and-chip standard. The alternative would be God knows what continued agonies of despair; or it might be attempted insurrections which, in a strongly governed country like England, could only lead to futile massacres and a regime of savage repression.”