
“Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.”
Source: The Way We Live Now, ch. 84. (1875)
Swimming Across: A Memoir
“Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.”
Source: The Way We Live Now, ch. 84. (1875)
Source: A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832), Book III, On Consumption, Chapter IV, p. 397
“I cannot afford the luxury of sentiment, mine must be cold logic.”
Quoted from George Marshall: Defender of the Republic
“Fear is a luxury one can’t afford.”
Source: "Robinson Risner, Air Force ace and POW, dies at 88" in The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/robinson-risner-air-force-ace-and-pow-dies-at-88/2013/10/29/ec759f3e-40ae-11e3-a624-41d661b0bb78_story.html (29 October 2013)
“Are you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford, Jack?”
Source: The Shining
As quoted in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988) by James Beasley Simpson, p. 211
On leaving the Sex Pistols; reported in Julien Temple, The Filth and the Fury: The Sex Pistols (2000), p. 207.