Victoria Coren Mitchell Quotes

I take showers, I don't like them because I like baths in very nice jacuzzi or garden tubs.

Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

We don't need fashion to survive, we just desire it so much.

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.

The art of our necessities is strange, And can make vile things precious.

I'm not materialistic. I love clothes and all that stuff, but I don't need it to live.

I don't take showers at night, because I take a bath when I wake up. Then I go to bed on the most beautiful Egyptian-cotton antique sheets in the world.

Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.

Our creature comforts

Breathing is optional, but I need some air.

Them as ha' never had a cushion don't miss it.

To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential.

All you really need in life is some fresh water, a good hat, and a really good pair of shoes.

Life before toilet paper was not worth living.

Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.

You have to fight for what you need to fight for.

When you have no money, you need invention.

When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.

Knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our Desires, and the fewer things a Man wishes for, the more easily his Necessities may be supply'd.

Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death.

And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up. I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.