Luxury may refer to:
- Luxury good, an economic good or service for which demand increases more than proportionally as income rises
- Luxury tax, tax on products not considered essential, such as expensive cars
- Luxury tax (sports), surcharge put on the aggregate payroll of a sports team to the extent to which it exceeds a predetermined guideline level set by the league
- Luxury vehicle, expensive automobiles
- Luxury trains, expensive tourist trains
- Luxury yacht, expensive privately owned, professionally crewed yacht
- Luxury real estate, niche real estate market dealing with the highest economic group of property buyers
- Luxury resort, exclusive vacation facilities
- Luxury box, term for a special seating section in arenas, stadiums and other sports venues
- Luxury magazine, magazines devoted to fine craft and luxury goods
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Famous quotes containing the word luxury:
“The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air- conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“This luxury of the precocious child,
Time’s precious chronic invalid,—
would we, darlings, resign it if we could?
Our blight has been our sinecure:
mere talent was enough for us—
glitter in fragments and rough drafts.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)