Quotes About Extravagance

I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant.

Poverty is not dishonourable in itself, but only when it arises from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

A man must have a less than ordinary share of sense that would furnish such plain and common rooms with silver-footed couches and purple coverlets and gold and silver plate.

There, display and extravagance, in dress, in furniture, in costly entertainments, are startling. They seem to push you back into a corner, like a poor intruder at a feast; they are apt to make you envious, or take your breath away with amazement.

Between the lapels of his subdued charcoal suit, he'd worn a silky red tie. A gold Rolex had circled his wrist, and an overblown blonde had been bonded on his side like a suction cup. The man clearly liked to accessorize.

Frugality is for the vulgar.

I didn't like the '80s at all; it was a vulgar moment of fashion.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

I spent pretty much all my wages from 'No Country For Old Men' on a pair of cowboy boots. They're ridiculous. It's like wearing two Christmas trees on my legs.

I go through money like a bloke with three arms.

I've got Ferraris coming out me bum.

When I'm abroad, I burn all my money on Broadway.

At 24, I was probably making more than 95 percent of my friends. I was burning through money.

I bought three cars in one day. For a high six-figure sum, I got a Lamborghini, a Hummer, and a Cadillac Oldtimer.

To sum up my idea of on-ice costume fashion sense, it's probably that too much is never enough.

The stock market is for people who live in Manhattan and summer in the Hamptons, for people who can afford fancy cars - a Mercedes, say.

I'd love to drive a Bugatti - something totally ridiculous but super fast.

Mrs. George Widener was met not by automobile but by a special train—consisting of a private Pullman, another car for ballast, and a locomotive.

When the waitress comes, Leo orders pancakes with chocolate chips and strawberries, an omelet with sausage and peppers, French toast with powdered sugar and pecans, hot chocolate with whipped cream, orange juice, home fries, regular fries with gravy, and a bowl of chocolate pudding.

The sex was like digging into an incredibly rich, gooey brownie topped with Haagen-Dazs vanilla ice cream and smothered hot fudge after six months on the Atkins diet.

Akimov had decided to throw caution to the wind and host a blowout

Grotesque displays of wealth are now the de rigueur. - Sarah Bancroft

Hey, y'know what money can buy? A solid gold gun. That shoots diamond bullets. I call it "The Compensator". Whatta ya think?

Compramos cosas que no necesitamos con dinero que no tenemos a fin de impresionar a personas que no queremos.