This post is all about luxury quotes and quotes about luxury.
If you’re an avid reader of Dukes Avenue, you’ll know that we’re all about inspiring you to live your best and most luxurious life, in whatever way that means to you.
Many people think luxury and wealth are one and the same. The truth, however, is that luxury is very much personal, and one reader’s idea of luxury will be completely different to another’s.
To challenge your idea of luxury, we’ve carefully curated a list of our favorite luxury quotes to both inspire and stimulate your creativity, and perhaps by the end of it, you may start to think about luxury a little differently.
Through these inspirational quotes, sayings and life lessons, we hope to convince readers that luxury has nothing to do with net worth and everything to do with self-worth, and the freedom to do whatever brings you happiness.
To make things even easier, we’ve divided the quotes into the different areas of life where you may be seeking a little decadence: whether that’s travel, style or just general luxury life quotes, we’ve got you covered!
A Collection of Luxury Quotes
Luxury Lifestyle Quotes
1. Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
– Socrates
2. 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.
– LWren Scott
4. Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.
– Oscar Wilde
5. It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
– Thomas Moore
6. Looking out at the lake, drinking good tea. That’s his only luxury. And what an enormous luxury that was.
– Banana Yoshimoto
7. The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
– Baron de Montesquieu
8. Most of the luxuries and many of the so called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
– Henry David Thoreau
9. The greatest luxury is being free.
– Manolo Blahnik
10. I give myself the luxury of saying what I want.
– Jose Mujica
11. Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
– John Lothrop Motley
12. Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
13. We should bring in an environmental attitude, and I think luxury should automatically be about sustainability and quality.
– Jochen Zeitz
14. Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
– Orson Welles
15. Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
– Golda Meir
16. If you want to be rich… Don’t allow yourself the luxury of excuses.
17. Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.
– Dorothy Parker
18. Any luxury too easily obtained is probably not a luxury at all.
– Saskia Havekas
19. Happiness is not a luxury. It is a necessity. When we are happy, we are in the best possible place to be good to ourselves and those we love.
– Suze Orman
20. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.
– Pico Lyer
21. Athletics is a luxury.
– Roger Bannister
22. It is a luxury to be understood.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
23. Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
– Jasper Fforde
24. Happy endings are a luxury of fiction.
– Trudi Canavan
25. It’s such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.
– Joe Pantoliano
26. When you dance you can enjoy the luxury of being you.
– Paulo Coelho
27. The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment.
– John Gay
28. The greatest luxury of having money should be not having to worry about it.
– David Whyte
29. Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
30. The most rewarding thing is having a job that you love. It’s not a luxury that everyone in this world enjoys.
– Krysten Ritter
31. The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
– Arthur Helps
32. Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
33. Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it’s a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life.
– Christie Brinkley
Luxury Quotes About Time
34. True luxury is 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
35. The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it’s through time.
– Nancy Gibbs
36. The future is the most expensive luxury in the world.
– Thornton Wilder
37. In today’s life, luxury is time and space.
– Harmon Okinyo
38. The fact is that modern life has deprived us of life’s one great luxury: time.
– Laurie Colwin
39. I don’t have the luxury of time to be unhappy. I have too much to do. I have too much do accomplish. Who has the time to be unhappy?
– Frederick Lenz
40. 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
41. Real luxury is understanding quality, and having the time to enjoy it.
– G Bruce Boyer
42. The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.
– Leontyne Price
Luxury Travel Quotes
43. Luxury travel is about the experience, not just the appearance. Luxury travel may be glamorous, but not always meaningful. Local culture may not always be glamorous, but it’s always meaningful.
– Nyssa P. Chopra
44. Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.
– Paulo Coelho
45. I travel in so many different ways; I travel high, I rough it… it all depends on who I travel with.
– Diane Von Furstenberg
46. There is no such thing as luxury travel; travel is, by default, a luxury.
– Unknown
47. To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is 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
Luxury Hotel Room Quotes
48. Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.
– Ingvar Kamprad, founder of Ikea
49. Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby.
– Paul-Jean Toulet
50. You may not know it but I’m no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.
– Paul Theroux
51. I just love to go home, no matter where I am, the most luxurious hotel suite in the world, I love to go home..
– Michael Caine
Luxury Fashion Quotes
52. Luxury goods are the only area in which it is possible to make luxury margins.
– Bernard Arnault
53. The only real elegance is in the mind; if you’ve got that, the rest really comes from it.
54. Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.
55. Luxury must be comfortable, or else it is not luxury.
56. 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.
57. I believe that style is the only real luxury that is really desirable.
58. I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity.
59. Style is luxury, and luxury is simply what makes you happy.
– Deborah Needleman
60. You can have anything you want in life, if you dress for it.
– Edith Head
61. Luxury is about pleasing yourself, not dressing for other people.
62. Once you start compromising, once you start trying to keep cost lower, this is not luxury. Luxury is wanting the best and using the best materials with which to do that.
63. Luxury items are things you reward yourself with.
– Hans-Joerg Seeberger
Luxury Design Quotes
64. Luxury is in each detail.
65. Luxury is attention to detail, originality, exclusivity and above all quality.
– Angelo Bonati
66. Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income and mobility.
– Tim Ferriss (author of ‘The 4-Hour Work Week‘)
67. There is always going to be that luxury customer out there. I have clients who buy $10,000 dresses and clients who buy $60 dresses. It’s not so much about the money. Design is a mentality.
– Jason Wu
68. In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.
– Bernard Arnault
69. Luxury is the balance of design, in the sense of beauty and highest quality.
– Domenico de Sole
70. Luxury means to live free of conventions and expectations.
– Anton Wolfgang Count Faber-Castell
71. Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.
– Karl Lagerfeld
72. Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
– Anais Nin
Luxury Home Quotes
73. A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
– Henry Ward Besscher
74. 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
75. I thoroughly enjoy a good hot bath. That is my ultimate luxury.
– Michelle Yeoh
76. Luxury can be very simple, for example, staying 15 minutes longer in bed.
– Jean-Louis Dumas
77. 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
78. Art is a luxury but also a necessity.
– Edwidge Danticat
79. What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?
– Anthony Trollope
80. Books are my one luxury.
– Stella Vine
81. Real luxury is a balance between quality and the affection you feel for an object that cannot be easily replicated.
– Marco Zanini
Luxury Love Quotes
82. Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
– Anthony Trollope
83. Pleasure is, after all, a luxury. It’s love that’s essential.
– John Dufresne
84. Hate is such a luxurious emotion; it can only be spent on one we love.
– Bob Udkoff
85. Family is our greatest luxury.
– Granit Xhaka
Luxury Motivational Quotes
86. Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
– Edsger Dijkstra
87. I think that anyone who’s pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It’s a luxury.
– Twyla Tharp
88. You don’t buy luxury to enter a community, but to set yourself apart from others.
– Francois-Henri Pinault
89. Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
– Anias Nin
89. Most people quit exercising early when they don’t see results. The reason is: they treat working out like its a LUXURY thing instead of a LIFESTYLE. They only exercise when they feel like it not when they need to. Luxury is temporary, lifestyle is everlasting.
– London Mond
90. Luxury, like a minimum wage, is a relationship; it changes as we change.
– Vida Dutton Scudder
91. It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness.
– Sheryl Sandberg
Luxury Wisdom Quotes
92. Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
– Edward Abbey
93. Being anonymous is a great luxury. It’s a big loss to lose that. Mostly, the loss is the ability to observe others without being observed yourself.
– Adrien Brody
94. Luxury is not about the things that you own. It is about something that reflects your personal values, something that shows the choices that you have made in your life.
– Marcel Wanders
95. People from my father’s generation didn’t have the luxury to be unhappy in their job.
– Dulquer Salmaan
96. Death row saved my life. It taught me everything is a luxury to be treasured.
– Nick Yarris
97. Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
– Martin Farquhar Tupper
98. I think there is something about luxury – it’s not something people need, but it’s what they want. It really pulls at their heart.
– Marc Jacobs
99. Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.
– Dodie Smith
100. Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
– Cesare Pavese
101. Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.
– Tahir Shah
Luxury Car Quotes
102. A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability.
– Helen Fisher
103. Nothing is more awesome than a classic car.
– Unknown
104. Fast cars are my only vice.
– Michael Bay
105. It’s not just a car. It’s someone else’s dream.
– Unknown
106. Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
– Unknown
107. Good cars get you from point A to point B, but great cars…Well they just get you into trouble.
– Unknown
108. Race cars are neither beautiful nor ugly. They become beautiful when they win.
– Enzo Ferrari
109. Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers.
– Colin McRae
110. A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.
– Mario Andretti
111. Asking someone else to drive your sports car is like asking someone else to kiss your girlfriend.
– Amit Kalantri
112. Fast cars like Porsches and Ferraris – they are things of beauty.
– Rod Stewart
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LAST UPDATED ON:
04/17/2023
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