Luxury is more deadly than any foe. Juvenal
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world. Cesare Pavese
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. Frank Lloyd Wright
Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves. Dorothy Parker
On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired. Edward Young
The state is suffering from two opposite vices, avarice and luxury; two plagues which, in the past, have been the ruin of every great empire. Livy
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. Socrates
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. Coco Chanel