The Education of Henry Adams
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
Bright John 1811-1889
The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.
Cowper William 1731-1800
The Task ‘The Sofa'
Thus first necessity invented stools,
Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs,
And luxury the accomplished sofa last.
Forster E.M. 1879-1970
Howards End
To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.
JUVENAL AD c.60-c.130
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
Macaulay Baron (Thomas Babington) 1800-1859
Essays ... ‘Samuel Johnson' (of writers)
They knew luxury; they knew beggary; but they never knew comfort.
Marston John 1576-1634
Satire VII
‘A man, a man!' ‘Peace, Cynic, yon is one:
A complete soul of all perfection.'
‘What, mean'st thou him that walks all ope-
breasted;
Drawn through the ear, with ribans, plumy-
crested;
He that doth snort in fat-fed luxury,
And gapes for some grinding monopoly;
He that in effeminate invention,
In beastly source of all pollution,
In riot, lust, and fleshly seeming sweetness,
Sleeps sound, secure, under the shade of greatness?
Montesquieu Charles Baron de 1689-1755
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
Orton Joe 1933-1967
Loot
Every luxury was lavished on you - atheism, breast-feeding, circumcision.
PAVESE Cesare
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
Trollope Anthony 1815-1882
The Way We Live Now
Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.