Monforte Luxury Quotes

Luxury goods are the only area in which it is possible to make luxury margins. ~ Bernard Arnault

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world. ~ Cesare Pavese

No logo, and you don't advertise for anyone. I don't believe in imposed luxury. I believe in built luxury. Something you refine with your own taste. Mass luxury is not my luxury. ~ Lapo Elkann

Looking out at the lake, drinking good tea. That's his only luxury.
And what an enormous luxury that was. ~ Banana Yoshimoto

Luxury is obviously the direction that interests me the most, but there is a lot of confusion between luxury and exhibitionism. For me, the concept of luxury is more traditional, more exclusive, more sophisticated than luxury for the masses. ~ Giorgio Armani

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up. ~ Orson Welles

I am not trying to say that I am poor and that I don't like beautiful things. But I don't like luxury for luxury sake or in the sense of showing off luxury. ~ Vladimir Potanin

I'm learning Cuban. It's like Spanish, but with fewer words for luxury items. ~ Emo Philips

Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed. ~ Tim Ferriss

I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable. ~ Nan Fairbrother

For me, luxury is intelligence and quality. I don't see a lot of intelligence and quality in luxury when it's used to make fast, big money. ~ Philippe Starck

Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press. ~ Nate Silver

The luxury of ostentation affords a much less substantial and solid gratification, than the luxury of comfort, if I may be allowed the expression. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

Sensuality is the most expensive taste and luxury in the world. ~ Lebo Grand

The boom for luxury goods is unending. There are people who never have to worry about whether they can afford something they like. In one part of the world or another there will always be someone with money to spend on luxury. ~ Diego Della Valle

Style is luxury, and luxury is simply what makes you happy. ~ Deborah Needleman

Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury ~ Jeanette Winterson

Luxury for me is having my days free to do as I please. ~ Marty Rubin

Luxury is a state of mind. ~ L'Wren Scott

Most brands that are called luxury brands today are not true luxury brands. The globalization of fashion and luxury means you now find the same luxury brands in every city. The stores look the same, the products are the same. It is still a very good quality product but it is now readily available to everyone. It's a kind of mass luxury. ~ Monita Rajpal

Luxury is more deadly than any foe. ~ Juvenal

Unless some other factor is operative, in large, weak and underpopulated states, the luxury of ostentation prevails over that of comfort; but in countries which are more populous than extensive, the luxury of comfort always diminishes ostentation. ~ Cesare Beccaria

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury. ~ Anish Kapoor

Books are my one luxury. ~ Stella Vine

I always felt that with luxury came cruelty. I do my best to live a happy, prosperous life, but I don't indulge in a lot of luxury. ~ Alison Eastwood

Luxury is best experienced not when it's inherited but when it's earned. ~ Mohith Agadi

I don't love the word luxury because it feels Bougy to me. ~ Beth Ditto

Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be. ~ Patricia McCormick

Luxury, so far as it reaches the people, will do good to the race of people; it will strengthen and multiply them. Sir, no nation was ever hurt by luxury; for, as I said before; it can reach but a very few. ~ Samuel Johnson

Weekends are a real luxury for me because I'm usually working. ~ Clare Balding

It took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger. ~ Sara Sheridan

Suicide was a mortal luxury not afforded to angels. ~ Lauren Kate

Luxury is about pleasing yourself, not dressing for other people ~ Marc Jacobs

Blest hour! It was a luxury
to be! ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Those who want luxury cars should buy them at market rates and not ... abuse public funds. ~ Gideon Gono

We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford. ~ Benito Mussolini

We were so poor; the ultimate luxury in our house at the time was ashtrays without advertisements. ~ Chic Murray

Insecurity, however, is a luxury on which I never economize. ~ Judith Thurman

Every luxury was lavished on you - atheism, breastfeeding, circumcision. ~ Joe Orton

I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity. ~ Jil Sander

Luxury destroys more efficiently than war. ~ Juvenal

Morality is a private and costly luxury. ~ Henry Adams

It's mainly the high-end luxury market now that drives much of the fishing in the sea. It's not feeding the starving millions. It's feeding a luxury market. ~ Sylvia Earle

Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary. ~ Karl Marx

Luxury life is good if everyman living on earth can benefit from it! Otherwise, it is injustice! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A glamorous life is quite different to a life of luxury. I don't need luxury. For years, I was practically broke but I was still very vain and glamorous. And I still am. ~ Lady Gaga

Luxury is the opportunity to experience quality, be it a place, a person or an object. ~ Keanu Reeves

When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation. ~ Cherrie Moraga

Real luxury is customization. ~ Lapo Elkann

If you want to be rich, don't allow yourself the luxury of excuses. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Cruelty is the luxury of those who have nothing to do, like drugs or racing stables. ~ Marguerite Yourcenar

Necessity invented stools,
Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs,
And luxury the accomplish'd Sofa last. ~ William Cowper

How can I ask people who work for me to travel cheaply if I am traveling in luxury? ~ Ingvar Kamprad

What luxury would I take to a desert island? A mirror. It's true. I'd miss me. ~ Simon Cowell

A room to myself is a luxury that I do not always enjoy. ~ Frances Harper

Let us have the luxury of silence. ~ Jane Austen

The baskets start at $25 and] the sky's the limit, I've done baskets worth hundreds of dollars. At that price, they are putting in luxury items. ~ John Neff

The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me. ~ Albert Einstein

Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world. ~ Carolina Herrera

I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.' ~ Zaha Hadid

Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time. ~ Jodi Picoult

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

When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment. ~ John Gay

The greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

What is bad about luxury as long as you can afford it? ~ Diana Dors

I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand. ~ Tamara Mellon

Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner. ~ Ma Jian

As theater artists, it's a great luxury to have time. ~ Jonathan Freeman

Dignity was a luxury in a fight with Lyndon Johnson, a luxury too expensive to afford. ~ Robert A. Caro

Art in America has always been regarded as a luxury ... ~ Hallie Flanagan

I have a kind of objective luxury about my career. ~ Martin Short

Luxury is an obstacle, and so is the fatness of the body. ~ Umar

I long for the luxury of being impractical. ~ Neal Shusterman

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired. ~ Andrew Young

Education is not a luxury, it is a basic human right. ~ Madonna Ciccone

I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium. ~ Paul McCartney

It is solely bigness in business which makes it possible to supply the masses with all those products the present-day American common man does not want to do without. Luxury goods for the few can be produced in small shops. Luxury goods for the many require big business. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right way. ~ Zac Posen

An unsatisfied woman requires luxury, but a woman who is in love with a man will lie on a board. ~ Andre Maurois

What people sometimes interpret as quirky is my attempt to subvert the concept of luxury by introducing elements that are considered ordinary or commonplace. ~ Miuccia Prada

I give myself the luxury of saying what I want. ~ Jose Mujica

Working out is not a luxury, it's a necessity. ~ Marisa Miller

Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends ~ Coco Chanel

I'm just auditioning. I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things. ~ Madeline Zima

The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue. ~ Rem Koolhaas

God is not a luxury you can't afford; He's a necessity you truly cannot live without! ~ Monica Denise Brown

Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes. ~ Antonio Damasio

When a silhouette or shape is as beautiful as it is functional and relevant, that's true luxury. ~ Reed Krakoff

There was an air of luxury about the room, but it was the luxury of expert simplicity. ~ Ayn Rand

Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely. ~ Adrian Belew

Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone. ~ W. H. Auden

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility. ~ Jeanette Winterson

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life. ~ Amy Tan

My job affords me the luxury of having help. I don't feel exhausted, I feel lucky. ~ Kelly Ripa

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle. ~ Samuel Johnson

High self-esteem isn't a luxury. It's a necessity for anyone who has important goals to achieve. ~ Jack Canfield

We do not have the luxury of despair right now. There is too much at stake, for too many people. ~ Robert Jensen

They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men. ~ Plutarch

Diesel is the only example of a casualwear or sportswear company that became a luxury brand. ~ Renzo Rosso