Quotes About Extravagance

We partied with the royal rich people, and we felt like rock stars. We drank all the whiskey in the place.

While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided to bring to a party a salad that I constructed, on a huge rattan platter, to look like a miniature scale model of the Gardens of Babylon.

What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an image of their affluence.

For many of us, our proms were less Walt Disney's 'Cinderella' and more Stephen King's 'Carrie.' The less we spent on them, the better.

My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees, whether in a for-profit business or a not-for-profit, should keep in mind: A little extravagance goes a long way.

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.

Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.

I wouldn't deliberately go and buy something that one would categorise as an extravagant thing.

I feel like my Lion Babe look is an embellishment of my everyday look - it's definitely more extravagant and more artistic.

My life is extravagant.

Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.

Qué desapasionado, prosaicamente práctico, noblemente soso es nuestro tiempo. Aunque tal vez tenga también su lado bueno: uno puede distinguirse por su extravagancia.

New Money wore dinner suits, which it called tuxedos, and smoked big cigars from which it removed the band before lighting up—an unthinkable solecism, for

Ida Alice seemed determined to run through Flagler's money, gathering an expensive wardrobe and trying to buy her way into New York high society.

Though Rockefeller resisted the yacht-owning fad that swept New York society in the 1880s and owned neither a boat nor private railroad car, he spared no expense for fast-trotting horses

on the right, in what looked like the most expensive neighborhood since money was invented. To

I am starting a collection of only right-hand gloves. It's ever so bourgeois to have two.

As Bambi's mother said, why not blow a few extra bucks when the mood strikes?

Bitch I got money to blow, gettin it in. Lettin these bills fall over your skin.

Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life.

I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.

I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It 's nothing new - I used to spend down to the last dime.

Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil. Wouldn't it be cheaper to leave them on the tree in the first place? This deciduous business alone is a radical scheme, the brainchild of a deranged manic-depressive with limitless capital. Extravagance! Nature will try anything once.

There's Jay-Z, who morphs a certain street hustler's cool and indifference into CEO extravagance. But for all his prominence, Jay-Z hasn't written a lot of crossover hits.