It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas.
VIPessays now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.
Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.
Letter "L" » luxury
«The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.»
«Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure»
«Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.»
«Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.»
«The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(
Lawyer,
Orator,
Scholar,
Statesman,
Writer)
|
About:
Enemies
|
Keywords:
contend,
contended,
contends,
criminality,
folly,
Gates,
luxury
«Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best both for the body and the mind.»
«The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar, / All now was turned to jollity and game,/ To luxury and riot, feast and dance.»
Author: John Milton
(
Historian,
Poet,
Scholar)
|
Keywords:
brazen,
ceased,
feast,
jollity,
luxury,
riot,
rioting,
riots,
roar,
throat,
war dance
«The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world»
«There is luxury in self reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(
Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
|
Keywords:
blame,
else,
feel,
For No One,
has,
has a,
luxury,
no.,
no,
No One,
No self,
one,
reproach,
reproaches,
reproaching,
right,
self-reproach,
self,
there,
there is,
U.S.,
us
«The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(
Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
|
Keywords:
body,
done with,
luxury,
mode,
pleasure,
purification,
recollection,
recollections,
regret,
remains,
sin,
sins,
The Body