Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return—that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. For a moment I felt that I had discovered a great truth.
—Dodie Smith in I Capture the Castle
When you’re a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury.
—Sarah Addison Allen in The Peach Keeper
Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.
—Dorothy Parker
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
—Edward Abbey
Freedom in not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.
—Henry Steele Commager in Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent
Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win.
—Lois McMaster Bujold