Quotes About Extravagance

I love crazy, gaudy bling.

I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world.

Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! We love Versace. Versace is the greatest designer of all time!

Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.

While a hidden orchestra played funeral marches, the guests were waited on by naked negresses wearing only slippers and stockings in cloth of silver embroidered with tears.

You know the sultans used to light their garden parties with turtles? They'd put candles on their backs and let them wander around. Hundreds of them.

Therefore, the very large department store should not be viewed as a sinful undertaking, as, for example, the Tower of Babel. It is, rather, proof of the inability of the human race of today to be extravagant. It even builds skyscrapers: and the consequence this time isn't a great flood, but just a shop...

Gimme a whiskey—ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.

If I could live in a cabaret, I would. If I could live in 'Moulin Rouge,' I would.

Spending $40,000 on shoes is downright ignorant.

Have you seen the well to do? Up and down Park Avenue? On that famous thoroughfare, With their noses in the air? High hats and arrowed collars, Wide spats and fifteen dollars. Spending every dime, For a wonderful time.

In any case, in Vermont $500 is a lot of money for dinner. I hope these rich folks enjoyed themselves.

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.

I know my mom always likes to give the over-the-top 'wow' pieces at baby showers.

Everyone says, 'What is it like to wreck a Ferrari?' Man, it felt good, especially when you don't have to pay for it.

One time, a hedge fund gentleman in Connecticut brought in a bunch of professional wrestlers and myself at a very hefty price for his son's 11th birthday.

My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them.

Everybody can't be rich! No fortune can hold out against waste!

Build an entire city in order to make love there with only one girl for few days.

During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year.

I like to be very simple in my lifestyle. My only extravagance is... I buy lots of toys and meats for my dog.

A family may be ruined by extravagance, but it is not always through ruin that the representatives in a family are to be found in humble or comparatively humble circumstances, but that the junior members of a gentle family went into trade.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.