#ux

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#monarchies #poverty #republics #ruins

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. ↗

— Hannah More

#luxury #more #perilous #poverty #quicksand

It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#checked #civilization #could #distance #hard

I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

#everyday #i #i love #into #love

I think there is something about luxury - it's not something people need, but it's what they want. It really pulls at their heart. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

#heart #i #i think #luxury #need

I'm someone who came to Paris as a teenager, and I dreamed of coming back to Paris as a visitor. I never dreamed of having a job at the biggest luxury house in Paris and, you know, 15 odd years later, I'm still here. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

#biggest #came #coming #dreamed #having

Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner. ↗

— Ma Jian

#cruise #like #living #london #luxury

I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there's a mass influx from one place, that's when it becomes problematic for Americans. ↗

— Billy Joel

#becomes #been #historically #i #i think

You're in this constant state of flux and transition, as if you had jet lag all the time. The acting part of it is easy. It's all the other things that come with it that are a bit difficult. ↗

— Don Johnson

#bit #come #constant #constant state #difficult

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#age #become #century #complex #defenseless