“All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
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.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
“Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.”
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
Source: Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950
“It is a luxury to be understood.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
“Hypocrisy is a luxury of the powerful.”
Jorge Majfud (1969) Uruguayan-American writer
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!”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
" Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Reflections_Retirement.html", l. 43 (1795)
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
“Happy endings are a luxury of fiction.”
Trudi Canavan (1969) Australian writer
Source: Priestess of the White
“Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.”
Judith Butler book Undoing Gender
Source: Undoing Gender