If you’re looking for the best quotes on luxury, you’ve come to the right place. These thought-provoking and famous luxury quotes will make you rethink the meaning of luxury.
Historically, quotes about luxury focused on monetary elements. These days, however, they’re more likely to be about notions of freedom and time. Luxury isn’t about overt displays of wealth any more, but about evaluating what truly brings us happiness.
The concept of luxury has also changed over time. As Nate Silver says, “books were a luxury item before the printing press”. Some of the quotes are slightly tongue in cheek, such as the one by Cher whilst the Coco Chanel luxury life quotes are iconic ones that never go out of style.
Luxury Quotes
These luxurious quotes are listed in alphabetical order of the person who created them, rather than by any particular preference. They’re all interesting in their own way.
Inspirational Luxury Quotes
- Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
Cesare Pavese
2. I don’t have theluxury of timeto be unhappy. I have too much to do. I have too much do accomplish. Who has the time to be unhappy?
Frederick Lenz
3. It is aluxuryto be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. Mere life is a luxury, and the color of the grass, of the flowers, of the sky, the wind in the trees, the outlines of the horizon, the forms of clouds, all give a pleasure as exquisite as the sweetest music to the ear famishing for it.
Mark Twain
5. The future is the most expensive luxury in the world.
Thornton Wilder
6. True luxuryis being able to own your time – to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation.
Ashton Kutcher
7. It is the ultimateluxuryto combine passion and contribution. It’s also aclear pathto happiness.
Sheryl Sandberg
Luxury Lifestyle Quotes
8. Art is not a luxury, but a necessity.
Rebecca West
9. Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.
Mariska Hargitay
10. Contemplation is aluxury, requiring time and alternatives.
Tahir Shah
11. Friendship is one of the greatest luxuriesof life.
Edward Everett Hale
12. Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
John Lothrop Motley
13. Happy endingsare aluxuryof fiction.
Trudi Canavan
14. I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity.
Jil Sander
15. I’m a man of simple tastes, I’m always satisfied with the best.
Oscar Wilde
16. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.
Pico Iyer
17. Morality is a private andcostly luxury.
Henry Adams.
18. In today’s life, luxury is time and space.
Harmon Okinyo
19. Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!
Oscar Wilde
20. Livingin thelapofluxury isn’t bad,exceptthatyou never knowwhenluxuryisgoingtostand up.
Orson Welles
21. Luxury is a state of mind.
L’Wren Scott
22. My tastes are simple, I am easily satisfied with the best.
Winston Churchill
23. Luxury to me is not about buying expensive things; it’s about living in a way where you appreciate things.
Oscar de la Renta
24. Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.
Carolina Herrera
25. Men aren’t necessities. They’re luxuries.
Cher
26. Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.
Henry David Thoreau
27. Offline is the new luxury.
28. Sleep is such a luxury.
Robin Sikarwar
29. Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.
Dorothy Parker
30. The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
Charlie Chaplin
31. Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.
Tom Ford
32. Thereal luxury travel of the modern age is notthrough space; it’s through time.
Nancy Gibbs
33. To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
Helen Keller
34. What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.
Anthony Crosland
35. When you dance you can enjoy theluxuryof being you.
Paulo Coelho
Luxury Design Quotes
36. In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.
Bernard Arnault
37. Luxury is attention to detail, originality, exclusivity and above all quality.
Angelo Bonati
38. Luxury is in each detail.
Hubert de Givenchy
39. Luxury is the balance of design, in the sense of beauty and highest quality.
Domenico de Sole
40. Luxury lives in the finer details. It’s a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It’s a mint on your pillow before bed.
Iggy Azalea
41. Luxury goods are the only area in which it is possible to make luxury margins.
Bernard Arnault
42. Not many architects have theluxuryto reject significant things.
Rem Koolhaas
43. The quality remains long after the price is forgotten.
Sir Henry Royce
Luxury Fashion Quotes
44. Chic happens.
45. Elegance is not adispensable luxurybut a factor that decides between success and failure.
Edsger Dijkstra
46. I believe that style is the only real luxury that is really desirable.
Giorgio Armani
47. Italian style is a natural attitude. It is about a life of good taste. It doesn’t have to be expensive. Simple but with good taste. Luxury is possible to buy. Good taste is not.
Diego Della Valle
48. Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.
Karl Lagerfeld
49. Luxury never goes out of fashion.
Luxury Home Quotes
50. A libraryis not a luxury but one of thenecessities of life.
Henry Ward Beecher
51. Books are my one luxury.
Stella Vine
52. Looking out at the lake, drinking good tea. That’s his only luxury.And what an enormous luxury that was.
Banana Yoshimoto
53. Luxury can be very simple, for example, staying 15 minutes longer in bed.
Jean-Louis Dumas
54. To me bathtubs are the epitome of luxury. Either you have no money to own one or you have no time to use one.
Akilnathan Logeswaran
55. Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three – and paradise is when you have none.
Doug Larson
Luxury Motivational Quotes
56. Atrue luxuryis a reward for investing in and developing a real asset.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
57. I give myself the luxury of saying what I want.
José Mujica
58. I think the older I get, the more I realize that theultimate luxuryis time.
Michael Kors
59. It is the mind that makes the body rich.
Andrew Carnegie
60. Luxury is feeling unrushed. It is designing a life that allows you to do what you want with high leverage, with many options, all while feeling unrushed.
Tim Ferriss
61. Luxury is to have a job you can enjoy.
Till Reiter
62. Luxury items are things you reward yourself with.
Hans-Joerg Seeberger
63. Luxury means to live free of conventions and expectations.
Anton Wolfgang Count Faber-Castell
64. The greatest luxury is being free.
Manolo Blahnik
65. The ultimateofbeing successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.
Leontyne Price
66. You cannot spend money inluxurywithout doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it inluxury, than by giving it; for by spending it inluxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
Samuel Johnson
Coco Chanel Quotes
67. A gift should be two things: classy and fabulous.
68. Luxury must be comfortable. Otherwise it is not luxury.
69. Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
70. Fashion fades, only style remains the same.
71. The best things in life are free. The second best things are very expensive.
72. I only drink Champagne on two occasions, when I am in love and when I am not.
73. Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends.
74. Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
75. There are people who have money and people who are rich.
76. Luxury liesnot in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity.
Expensive Quotes
77. Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Frank Lloyd Wright
78. If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.
Jean Paul Getty
79. If you have to ask how much it costs, you can’t afford it.
J.P. Morgan
80. Money does not smell.
Roman proverb: Pecunia non olet
81. Nothing is too beautiful, nothing is too expensive.
Ettore Bugatti
82. The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
John D. Rockefeller
83. What is bad about luxury as long as you can afford it?
Diana Dors
84. Better nouveau riche than never rich!
Bernard Fornas
Luxury Travel Quotes
85. The greatest reward and luxury of travelis to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted. Bill Bryson
86. Mountains are the soul’s fuel.
87. Even when I haven’t had money, I found money to travel. It’s a luxury that’s a kind of necessity, I think. Beth Orton.
88. Those who say travel is too expensive don’t have any imagination.
89. All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost. J.R.R. Tolkien
90. Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. Edward Abbey
Live Your Best Life Quotes
91. Any luxury too easily obtainedis probably not aluxuryatall.SaskiaHavekes
92. If you want to be rich,don’t allow yourselfthe luxury of excuses. Robert T. Kiyosaki
93. You are never too old to set a new goal or dream a new dream. Les Brown
94. Some of my dreams are so big they would scare you. Dolly Parton
95. Happiness is the highest level of success.
96. It is never too late to be who you might have been. George Elliot
97. In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein
98. Make each day your masterpiece. John Wooden
99. Living your best life is your most important journey in life. Oprah Winfrey
That concludes our round up of luxe quotes. As you can see, luxury means very different things to different people.
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