Quotes About Extravagance

Lucullus dines with Lucullus,' that is quite sufficient.

They were of the female persuasion and richly endowed with vice.

Los malentendidos y la pereza quizá causan más extravíos en este mundo que la astucia y la perversidad. Al menos, estas dos últimas cosas ciertamente que son más raras

His life was one long extravaganza, like living inside a Faberge egg.

I am grandiose because I live a grandiose life; what's wrong with that?

My life really has been one long extravaganza.

I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

We got enough champagne here to start a France.

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

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

Chocolate, men, coffee — some things are better rich.

I'm a material girl - want to see my fabric collection?

[The prodigal son] wasted his substance with riotous living.

According to Plutarch, Cleopatra and Antony now dissolved their celebrated Society of Inimitable Livers and instituted another, which was at least its equal in elegance, luxury and extravagance, and which they called the Order of the Inseparable in Death. Their friends joined it on the understanding that they would end their lives together, and they set themselves to charm away the days with a succession of exquisite supper parties.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

We're all well-acquainted with depression, we all know what the low moods are, but the mania was not something I knew much about. I didn't know that it would make someone dress extravagantly or start to pun, and to stay up and drink.

The only really expensive thing in our family budget, frankly, is private air travel.

My mamma has a diamond ring which cost forty pounds," she said. "And it is not a big one, either. If there were mines full of diamonds, people would be so rich it would be ridiculous." "Perhaps Sara will be so rich that she will be ridiculous," giggled Jessie. "She's ridiculous without being rich," Lavinia sniffed.

Strapping Young Lad is a vehicle for me to be wild and extroverted and ridiculous. It gives me the chance to say, 'Look at me. I'm a heavy metal guy. I'm Rob Halford or Bruce Dickinson or whoever.'

Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.

My indifference to money and my spendthrift ways are disgraceful. You have no idea how reckless I am; how often I practically throw money out of the window. I am always making good resolutions, but the next minute I forget and give the waiter eightpence.

Food and wine are my extravagances.

Drake's home is its own fantasia, a single-level ranch that sprawls in various wings over 7,500 square feet, from the game room to the gym to Drake's master bedroom with Jacuzzi. The pool is like a scene out of Waterworld, with a bar inside a grotto, waterfalls, and a slide that drops thirty feet through the rock.

'China rich' is the new 'crazy rich.' It's a new level of outrageousness. It comes from this world where overnight fortunes have been made, but the fortunes are so ginormous compared to anything we've ever seen in the history of the world.