Quotes About Excess

To want too much was worse than greed: it was stupidity—a waste of precious time and effort.

Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart

You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I'm inclined to extravagance.

Todo tan insuficiente, tan de más o de menos.

una maldita borracha

Drinking myself blind seemed like the next logical step.

the Waldorf-Astoria crystallized the improbable and fabulous. It was more than a mere hotel. It was a vast, glittering, iridescent fantasy that had been conjured up to infect millions of plain Americans with a new idea—the aspiration to lead an expensive, gregarious life as publicly as possible.

Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

And they served me a lot of free drinks. So I drank a little more than I should have, maybe. So some of what happened I don't remember too well. But there was a lot of shouting." "You must have killed somebody," said Smith. "Yes, I think I did," Lord Eyrdway agreed.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.

Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.

I literally have a private jet on call at all times.

I'll tell you, what the world doesn't need is another Joe Bonamassa DVD.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.

In charity there is no excess.

We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.

The superfluous is very necessary.

There's too much lime in the world and not enough gin

There's too much lime in the world and not enough gin. —Frank O'Hara, from "Poem," The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara . (University of California Press March 31, 1995)

One group of senior directors took an extravagant junket to Uruguay to kill doves. They especially loved killing doves. Why? It couldn't have been the challenge. The group paid a Uruguayan farmer who had thousands of doves on his property to allow them to shoot there. One of the managers told me the air was so thick with doves that the hunting resembled a scene from Alfred Hitchcock's movie The Birds.

An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.