
“All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.”
Source: CEO Talk | Brunello Cucinelli, Founder and Chief Executive https://www.businessoffashion.com/amp/articles/ceo-talk/ceo-talk-brunello-cucinelli-founder-chief-executive-brunello-cucinelli Imran Amed, Business of Fashion, 1 July 2014
“All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.”
“Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.”
Source: Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950
“It is a luxury to be understood.”
“Hypocrisy is a luxury of the powerful.”
Debate with Uruguayan presidential candidate Mr. Pedro Bordaberry. Zoom a la noticia, Canal NTN24 (1 July 2014)
“Blest hour! it was a luxury — to be!”
" Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Reflections_Retirement.html", l. 43 (1795)
Source: A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832), Book III, On Consumption, Chapter IV, p. 397
“Happy endings are a luxury of fiction.”
Source: Priestess of the White