Quotes About Excess

We need to articulate luxury differently. We live in the world of the 'like' culture. As a society, we're consuming so much imagery, it's like gorging on sugar, and the only way to find depth in a 'like' culture is by presenting the unknown.

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

Less is more, unless you're Al Gore.

We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women.

I buy hats like women buy shoes. I have well over 150.

As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.

There's this idea that when you make a certain amount of money that you should be staying at four-star hotels and taking town cars. And believe me, I will take a town car every day, but there are some things where it's like, 'Is this necessary? Is this important?'

I know I can eat a lot. Normally, at home, I finish my steak, eat the rest of my fiancee's steak, and think about eating the two that are still left on the grill. I just can't stop eating.

Chicago's always been known as this meat and potatoes place, and a lot of restaurants play that up. They try to outdo each other by adding another 10 ounces, so their 80 ounce steak becomes a 90 ounce steak with 10 pounds of mashed potatoes on the side.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

Done because we are too menny.

No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.

Jesus loved crème brûlée, but even with crème brûlée enough isn't just enough, it can get to be too much.

A good thing is good, but more than enough of a good thing is too much.

How'd we get so drunk?" "It's a fuckin' mystery," said Rebecca, slamming a shot glass down on the table.

There is no reason for a person to have thousands of millions of dollars.

Being a celebrity can be dangerous. Nobody says 'no.'

For the well-heeled elites, the 90s and 00s were a non-stop party with no hangover: even after the financial crash, the fortunes of Britain's 1,000 richest families more than doubled.

Too much may be the equivalent of none at all.

The thing I always tell my writing students - I'm not a full-time instructor, by any means, but periodically I've taught writing students - what I always tell them is that the most important thing in narrative nonfiction is that you not only have to have all the research; you have to have about 100% more than you need.

I will normally eat about seven or eight mince pies in one sitting. Sometimes, I can get to double figures. My friends, and probably most people, stop at two, so they probably dislike me a bit for it.

I love buying things I wouldn't normally buy, especially cigars.