Quotes About Extravagance

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

The cream and hot butter mingled and overflowed separating each glucose bead of caviar from its fellows, capping it in white and gold.

The reaction came when he realized the waste and extravagance involved. He somtimes looked back with awe at the carnivals of affection he had given, as a general might gaze upon a massacre he had ordered to satisfy an impersonal blood lust.

I am a Florenz Ziegfeld fanatic.

When I was at university in the Fifties, Latin America was full of dictators. Trujillo was the emblematic figure because, of course, of his cruelty, corruption, extravagance, and theatricalities.

There's no other industry in the world where you could spend $100m as frivolously as they do in the film industry. Think about how much good you could do with $100m... it can be spent in 20 minutes on a movie.

To have people to the White House and worry about the price of things is laughable.

I admire Vegas's purity, its entirely wholesome artificiality.

I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.

I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.

The Club Kids were about fun. Wild, messy fun - the more debauched, the better.

I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural.

The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.

From a strictly Darwinian standpoint flowers would seem a needless extravagance. Evidently the Life Force has no use for Darwin or Darwinism. The Life Force is an artist.

Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money.

I'm so fond of luxury

I'm glad of it, that's one of your foolish extravagances, sending flowers and things to girls for whom you don't care two pins," continued Jo reprovingly. "Sensible girls for whom I do care whole papers of pins won't let me send them 'flowers and things', so what can I do? My feelings need a 'vent'.

He would compensate for his long absence by extravagant shows of generosity with his children.

It seemed unfortunate that they were led into such lavish style.

What's this? Bacon and tangerines. We are going to have an orgy.

a sovereign so rich in pachyderms that he can waste the gnashers of a thousand of the beasts just to decorate me.

When money comes in at the gate, sport flies out at the window.

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

The limousine is the ultimate ego trip, the supreme sign of success. It shouts: Hey, this guy is really and truly Mr Big.