Quotes About Extravagance

BOODLE'S ORANGE FOOL FOR FORTY FOLKS Pile four large sponge cakes into a great big punch bowl. Saturate them with the juice of sixteen oranges and eight lemons.

I change clothes at least three times a day. It's the only way I can justify all the shopping I do. Prada to the grocery store? Yes! Gucci to the dry cleaner's? Why not? Dolce & Gabbana to the corner deli? I insist!

That diamond encrusted goat's skull is the height of good taste!

The waiters' eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet – paté, Whitstable oysters, a sole, and a favorite salad of the Nizam of Hyderabad made of shredded five-pound notes.

Oh - a diamond ring - and Rhett, do buy a great big one!

Americans are gluttons. We shop with forklifts. We have a holiday where we stuff food into other food. Our strippers wrestle in Jell-O, where other countries have to use mud.

By the late 1890s spending had become more than just a mark of status, a weapon for rising in society, a wish to be surrounded only by the best, a form of self-aggrandisement or even a way of giving pleasure to others, but simply an end in itself and even a validation of identity – I spend, therefore I am.

His appetite was enormous: he would eat a breakfast of haddock, poached eggs, bacon, chicken and woodcock before a day's shooting, lunch and dinner of ten to fourteen courses, elaborate teas, snacks of lobster salad or cold chicken, with a cold chicken left by his bed at night in case he became hungry.

After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions on profligacies with ever-fresh vigor. The whole show has been on fire from the word go. I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn't flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.

This doesn't look like anything you'd find mere mortals riding in!

So what are you in the mood for? (Sunshine) How about naked Sunshine al dente covered in whipped cream and chocolate? We could even put a cherry on top. (Talon)

I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.

I believe in a glamorous life, and I live a glamorous life.

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

The Fitzgeralds] rode down Fifth Avenue on the top of taxis because it was hot or dove into the fountain at Union Square or tried to undress at the Scandals, or, in sheer delight at the splendor of new York, jumped, dead sober, into the Pulitzer fountain in front of the Plaza. Fitzgerald got in fights with waiters and Zelda danced on people's dinner tables.

My goal is to be the most ignorant, richest rapper I could be.

The first splurge that I did, I bought, like, an $80,000 watch, but that's because I'm a rapper. I need jewelry.

When you speak about Real Madrid, you talk about a lot of money - almost infinite funds - something very unique in the world.

What I like about Kannada cinema is that the stories are realistic, but told in grand, larger-than-life fashion.

At places like Chelsea, often the garden displays are so big and grand that you'd never be able to have them at home.

'The Great Gatsby' ticked so many boxes for me.

Living doesn't cost much, but showing off does.

Their ardor alternated between a vague ideal and the common yearning of womanhood; so that the one was disapproved as extravagance, and the other condemned as a lapse.

There is absolutely nothing you can't do, see, eat or buy in Las Vegas. It is a magical wonderland where everything is possible - especially in the world of showbiz where everything feels so big, bright and spectacular.