Learn the luxury of doing good. [ Goldsmith ]

There is a solemn luxury in grief. [ Wm. Mason ]

Weep on; and, as thy sorrows flow,
I'll taste the luxury of woe. [ Moore ]

A face like nestling luxury of flowers. [ Gerald Massey ]

And by his side rode loathsome gluttony.
Deformed creature, on a filthy swine;
His belly was up-blown with luxury,
And eke with fatness swollen were his eyne. [ Spenser ]

Luxury is a nice master, hard to be pleased. [ Sir G. Mackenzie ]

Republics end with luxury: monarchies with poverty. [ Montesquieu ]

On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired. [ Young ]

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things. [ Cowley ]

Luxury is in want of many things; avarice, of everything. [ Publius Syrus ]

Contentment is natural wealth; luxury, artificial poverty. [ Socrates ]

No one but an adventurous traveler can know the luxury of sleep. [ Earl of Beaconstield ]

If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxury. [ Cicero ]

Pain addeth zest unto pleasure, and teacheth the luxury of health. [ Tupper ]

Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious. [ Tuckerman ]

Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart. [ Addison ]

We have luxury and avarice, but as a people poverty, and in private opulence. [ Cato in Sall ]

I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem. [ Halleck ]

The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world. [ Napoleon I ]

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor. [ H. Home ]

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail. [ Victor Hugo ]

It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief: it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery. [ Amiel ]

He that prolongs his meals, and sacrifices his time as well as his other conveniences, to his luxury, how quickly does be outset his pleasure! [ South ]

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. [ Schopenhauer ]

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. The rich are always advising the poor; but the poor seldom venture to return the compliment. [ Sir Arthur Helps ]

Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof, and obtain access for himself and family to some social library. Almost any luxury should be sacrificed to this. [ William Ellery Channing ]

Secrets from other people's wives are a necessary luxury in modern life, but no man should have a secret from his own wife. She invariably finds out. Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Ages of ignorance and simplicity are thought to be ages of purity. But the direct contrary I believe to be the case. Rude periods have that grossness of manners, which is as unfriendly to virtue as luxury itself. Men are less ashamed as they are less polished. [ Warton ]

The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render happy may, with a book in his hand, forget all his torments under the friendly shade of every tree; and experience pleasures as infinite as they are varied, as pure as they are lasting, as lively as they are unfading, and as compatible with every public duty as they are contributory to private happiness. [ Zimmermann ]

The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent energy and being; in action, the calmness of trust and determination; in rest, the consciousness of duty accomplished and of victory won; and this repose and this felicity can take place as well in the midst of trial and tempest, as beside the waters of comfort. [ Ruskin ]

The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the impression of its liveliest wit or most passionate impulses, a thousand times adorning or feeling all as it goes; and you must read it, as the healthy instinct of audiences almost always does, if the critics will let them alone, with a grain of allowance, and a tendency to go away with as much of it for use as is necessary, and the rest for the luxury of laughter, pity, or poetical admiration. [ Leigh Hunt ]