Quotes About Extravagance

We loved the original 'Dynasty' - the camp and the big, surprising, soapy twists.

Everybody has their 15 minutes, and those 15 minutes should be spent in a private limo and a private plane. It's the ultimate.

Anyone who has been to India - specifically Rajasthan, the rich and kingly region in the country's northwest - knows that when it comes to adornment, Indians do not think like other people.

My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself.

They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.

I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.

No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend the mistress they're promising to divorce their wives for.

If you're going to be a movie star, you should live like one.

The breakfast-service on the table was equally costly and equally plain; the apparent object had been to spend money without obtaining brilliancy or splendour.

To die with style, live in the Baroque.

The more things had cost the better they were and the more they were talked about, which was the best of all. "Three million dollars!" people would say about the palace, and their voices would be lowered as if they were speaking of the dwelling place of deity.

he, how many beds do you think this hall alone would hold? Monseigneur's dining-room? exclaimed

I want the superfluous, the useless, the extravagant, excess, that which serves no purpose.

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

There are now skin products supposedly created with 24-karat gold extract. I guess if financial times got really tough, you could always pawn your own head.

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

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

Some people are just born with glitter in their veins.

Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.

We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big.

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.

Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.

We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.