#luxury

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#literature #luxury #necessity

Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#designed #luxury #owned #people #tax

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#else #feel #luxury #ourselves #right

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#enjoyment #expected #luxury #necessity #only

Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#come #england #expectation #fairly #had

There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not doing it intentionally to be evil. Here we are sitting in luxury hotels, living it up on the the backs of others in the third world. We all have a guilty conscience, but we do very little about it. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#backs #conscience #continuously #doing #even

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

#childhood #childhood memories #chocolate #feeling #first

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#enable #escape #good #good advice #greatest

Don't judge me. Ethics and morality no longer exist in our world. It's a luxury of the past, afforded only to those who had a future. ↗

— T.M. Williams

#desperation #ethics #luxury #morality #tm-williams

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

— Adrian Belew

#band #finest #forget #gets #i