Luxury Quotes

Luxury is either the effect of wealth or renders it necessary; it corrupts both the rich and the poor, the former by possession, the latter by covetousness.[Le luxe est l’effet des richesses ou il les rend nécessaires; il corrompt à la fois le riche et le pauvre, l’un par la possession, l’autre par la convoitise.]

You shouldn’t have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.

We have to have powder for our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.[Il faut de la poudre à nos perruques, voilà pourquoi tant de pauvres n’ont point de pain.]

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

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

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

He was all for catharsis and purification, he dreamed of an aesthetic consecration that should cleanse society of luxury, the greed of gold and all unloveliness.