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Luxury Quotes by Famous Authors

1. “If you have to ask how much it costs, you can’t afford it.”

J.P. Morgan

2. “Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can’t afford one.”

J.P. Morgan

3. “You are affluent when you buy what you want, do what you wish and don’t give a thought to what it costs.”

J.P. Morgan

4. “I got a king-sized bed. I don’t know any kings, but if one came over, I guess he’d be comfortable.”

Mitch Hedberg

5. “Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.”

Charles Lamb

6. “What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus?”

Plutarch

7. “A man must have a less than ordinary share of sense that would furnish such plain and common rooms with silver-footed couches and purple coverlets and gold and silver plate.”

Plutarch

8. “The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.”

Anton Chekhov

9. “The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.”

Stendhal

10. “That which annoys us does not necessarily injure us; but we are driven into wild rage by our luxurious lives, so that whatever does not answer our whims arouses our anger.”

Seneca

11. “The greatest luxury of life is peaceful breathing because it repairs the wounds of the cosmic soul.”

Amit Ray

12. “What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman’s excellence?”

Sophocles

13. “Luxury is experiencing reality.”

Chogyam Trungpa

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

Charlie Chaplin

15. “Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.”

Moliere

16. “If Claret is the king of natural wines, Burgundy is the queen.”

Moliere

17. “The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble.”

Benjamin Disraeli

18. “No one but an adventurous traveler can know the luxury of sleep.”

Benjamin Disraeli

19. “To the capitalist, every luxury of the worker seems to be reprehensible, and everything that goes beyond the most abstract need – be it in the realm of passive enjoyment, or a manifestation of activity – seems to him a luxury.”

Karl Marx

20. “Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary.”

Karl Marx

21. “Riches are for spending.”

Francis Bacon

22. “Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.”

Frederick Douglass

23. “The table groans under the heavy and blood-bought luxuries gathered with painstaking care, at home and abroad. Fields, forests, rivers and seas, are made tributary here. Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste.”

Frederick Douglass

24. “Feel body as luxury – as a bird feels when shooting through the air, and as a child does always – is health.”

Paramahansa Yogananda

25. “I don’t own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that’s a luxury I cannot afford.”

Pablo Picasso

26. “My greatest pleasure is still flying private. I spend between $300,000 to $500,000, depending on my year, on flying private.”

Suze Orman

27. “A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.”

Alfred Tennyson

28. “The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.”

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

29. “We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.”

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

30. “Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.”

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

31. “Luxury is a word of uncertain signification, and may be taken in a good as in a bad sense.”

David Hume

32. “When taxes are proposed, the country is amused by the plausible language of taxing luxuries. One thing is called a luxury at one time, and something else at another; but the real luxury does not consist in the article, but in the means of procuring it, and this is always kept out of sight.”

Thomas Paine

33. “Owning a great golf course gives you great power.”

Donald Trump

34. “Private jets cost a lot of money.”

Donald Trump

35. “Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.”

Wayne Dyer

36. “Wasn’t it his right to listen to opera, read poetry and adventure novels, go to Europe every couple of months for some reason or another, and drive his Porsche over the speed limit until he found out who he was?”

Anne Rice

37. “But just disease to luxury succeeds, And every death its own avenger breeds.”

Alexander Pope

38. “The convergence of desire is even more obvious at the top: all oligarchs have the same taste in Cristal, from Petersburg to Pyongyang.”

Peter Thiel

39. “Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.”

Douglas Adams

40. “The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

41. “A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

42. “Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.”

Edgar Allan Poe

43. “Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.”

Aldous Huxley

44. “It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.”

Orson Scott Card

45. “Between nine and ten, at last, in the high clear picture – he was moving in these days, as in a gallery, from clever canvas to clever canvas – he drew a long breath: it was so presented to him from the first that the spell of his luxury wouldn’t be broken.”

Henry James

46. “I had an excellent repast - the best repast possible - which consisted simply of boiled eggs and bread and butter.”

Henry James

47. “It is easy to understand why the rabble dislike cats. A cat is beautiful; it suggests ideas of luxury, cleanliness, voluptuous pleasures.”

Charles Baudelaire

48. “No, no, I’m sure, My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully, espy A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.”

John Keats

49. “I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.”

John Keats