It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.

Reading is my greatest luxury.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.

Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

We are the last remaining country to allow ourselves two breaks in the season. You just have to look at England, Italy and Spain, they play right through the season. We on the other hand take six weeks off in the winter until the end of January, and that is a luxury.

I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.

Athletics is a luxury.

Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.