luxury

In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.

And what I thought most about was luxury. I had never realised before that it is more than just having things; it makes the very air feel different. And I felt different, breathing the air: relaxed, lazy, still sad but with the edge taken off the sadness. Perhaps the effect wears off in time, or perhaps you don't notice it if you are born to it, but it does seem to me that the climate of richness must always be a little dulling to the senses. Perhaps it takes the edge off joy as well as off sorrow.

My head aches, my eyes burn, my arms and legs have given up, and my face in the mirror has a grayish cast. The bed, across the room, calls in its unmistakable lover's croon, Come to me, come, only I can make you truly happy, oh, how happy I'll make you, don't resist, remember how you moan with pleasure the instant we touch.....Laura Acosta

The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life--we went soft, we lost our edge.

I could take a shower every day in my own bathroom. I almost didn__ know what to do with such luxury. Other than, you know, not stink.

Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade. We are selling bread at the price of jewels... Let us take the profit, the private economic profit, out of medicine, and purify our profession of rapacious individualism... Let us say to the people not 'How much have you got?' but 'How best can we serve you?

I have everything I could ever want here, Adelina,_ he finally says. __ou__e handed me what feels like the world__ riches, a palace, a life of luxury._ He draws closer. __ get to be at your side. What more do I need?

Money's easy to make if it's money you want. But with few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.

Luxury items are those things that are mass-produced by a third party and marketed to us to purchase so that we can express our individuality.

[L]uxury always comes at someone else__ expense. One of the many advantages of civilization is that one doesn__ generally have to see that, if one doesn__ wish. You__e free to enjoy its benefits without troubling your conscience. (Ancillary Justice)

So what should we do with our last few days?___ just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you,_ Peete replies.__ome on, then,_ I say, pulling him into my room.It feels like a luxury, sleeping with Peeta again. I didn__ realize until now how starved I__e been for human closeness. For the feel of him beside me in the darkness.

Principles in a poor is admirable as politeness in a prince.

In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.

Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.

It's not a luxury if you can't do without it!

Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves. There are Greek troops, to be sure, in Persian service _ but how different is their cause from ours! They will be fighting for pay _ and not much of at that; we, on the contrary, shall fight for Greece, and our hearts will be in it. As for our foreign troops _ Thracians, Paeonians, Illyrians, Agrianes _ they are the best and stoutest soldiers in Europe, and they will find as their opponents the slackest and softest of the tribes of Asia. And what, finally, of the two men in supreme command? You have Alexander, they _ Darius!