“Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.”
Anthony Trollope book The Way We Live Now
Source: The Way We Live Now, ch. 84. (1875)
“I couldn't afford luxuries like embarrassment”
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Jean-Baptiste Say (1767–1832) French economist and businessman
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.”
George Marshall (1880–1959) US military leader, Army Chief of Staff
Quoted from George Marshall: Defender of the Republic
“Fear is a luxury one can’t afford.”
James Robinson Risner (1925–2013) Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
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)
“Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.”
Jasper Fforde book The Last Dragonslayer
Source: The Last Dragonslayer
“Are you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford, Jack?”
Stephen King book The Shining
Source: The Shining
Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer
As quoted in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988) by James Beasley Simpson, p. 211
Sid Vicious (1957–1979) English bassist and vocalist
On leaving the Sex Pistols; reported in Julien Temple, The Filth and the Fury: The Sex Pistols (2000), p. 207.
