Montesquieu Quotes

I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.

Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.

Let it be enough for you to have bread and live virtuously and poorly like Christ, as I do here. I live meanly and don't bother about life or honor ... and I live with the greatest toil and a thousand worries. It is now about 15 years since I had a happy hour.

The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without possessions, eating anything they could get and sleeping anyhow on the ground. St. Francis answered him with that curious and almost stunning shrewdness which the unworldly can sometimes wield like a club of stone. He said, 'If we had any possessions, we should need weapons and laws to defend them.

Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.

When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty.

Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity.

I like simple food, seasoned with just salt, pepper, oil and vinegar. Complicated food and complicated lives are never good.

I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without.

I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.

…a republican, or free government, can only exist where the body of the people are virtuous, and where property is pretty equally divided…

I drive one car. I own one house. That's enough for me.

I'm not a girl who's into home comforts and luxury.

I like simplicity almost to the point of being monastic.

I'm not a big car person. I'm not into lots of fancy things.

I really don't need luxury.

You don't have to make things which are just expensive.

I think that being a simple person suits me.

I don't wear any jewellery or gold at home.

I grew up with nothing, and I know that I don't need anything to be happy. We were wearing second-hand clothing and eating leftovers, and I was so happy. Five-star hotels and private pick-ups hasn't changed that.

Let me tell you something: I'm a simple person who lives a simple life.

I know I've been lucky, but I'm not very materialistic - I don't believe in collecting many unnecessary things and I'm not into girlie shopping.

I'm fine with just a simple life.