Quotes About Extravagance

But it looks a lot like finding the weirdest shit you can get away with in one night, in San Francisco, if you're willing to blow a metric fuck-ton of money to do it.

Believe for big things, dream extravagantly, expect God to do miracles and let's make His name famous across the earth.

The fundamental evil of the capitalist system is not the extravagance of the possessing classes, however disgusting that may be in itself, but the fact that in order to guarantee its right to extravagance the bourgeoisie maintains its private ownership of the means of production, thus condemning the economic system to anarchy and decay.

Every spendthrift passion has its attendant courtiers.

In London you can buy a hamburger for $1,700. Now, wait a minute, before you start bellyaching, yes, it comes with fries. It's $1,700. It's called the McSucker.

His bedroom was the gilded, diamond-studded, pearl-encrusted rococo lair of a god-king.

I used to literally spend every dime I had on clothes, shoes and getting fresh.

THE STONES WERE putting out a new edition of Exile on Main Street, which was another excuse for a party at our house. It's always fun to watch Keith arrive anywhere, never a quiet entrance. He's just got so much in motion on him: earrings, bracelets, rings; things twisted into his hair, headband, and hat; shirt unbuttoned; scarves, beads, and necklaces, plus a belt with a skull or something similar

Rosania says. "To keep them to myself would be unimaginable. Wine is meant to be shared." It's a refreshing attitude, particularly if you are on the receiving end of it. The night before the auction I personally consumed, by my best estimate, over $20,000 worth of his wine—including the 1945 Mouton and the 1947 Cheval Blanc—and I was one of fourteen drinkers.

It does not have walls splattered with gold leaf like King Midas has had a nosebleed.

so true it is that pleasure does not depend on extravagance, and that joy is as readily purchased by pence as pounds.

Davos is an extravagant bun-fight of the vanities, where the 'haves' gather to strike deals with the 'have-mores.'

Opulence doesn't cost more than boring.

I ordered gold in the meantime to be showered down without ceasing among the happy multitude.

You do see some outrageous things and people in Beverly Hills. I'm not always quite sure what to make of it.

There's something that's delightful about things getting bigger and more over-the-top. Sometimes it's empty, and other times, it's just fun.

It's fun to have an over-the-top stage personality.

I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent.

If I learned one thing that day, it was that Peter Bartholomew, Arnulf, even Saint John the Divine had all been wrong. The world did not have to end with ten-horned beasts and dragons, angels and fantastical monsters. The prophets who foretold those things had succumbed to the extravagance of their imaginations, and it had played them false. Nothing on earth could be so terrible as men.

Las Vegas is the only town in the world whose skyline is made up neither of buildings, like New York, nor of trees, like Wilbraham, Massachusetts, but signs.

Robes, dresses, frocks. They hung in endless rows, in hundreds, one beside the other all around the room - gleaming brocade, fluffy clouds of tulle and swansdown, flowery silk, night-black velvet with glittering spangles everywhere like small, many-coloured blinker beacons.

Grandmother had had to be frugal all her life, and so she had a weakness for extravagance. She watched the basin and the barrels and every crevice in the granite fill with water and overflow. She looked at the mattresses out being aired and the dishes that were washing themselves. She sighed contentedly, and, absorbed in thought, she filled a coffee cup with precious drinking water and poured it over a daisy.

Of course these gifts were reckless extravagances for a family that was never more than a couple of dollars and a few days away from hunger, but that's how poor people cope with being marooned in poverty while all around them flows the frothy stream of the consumer culture.

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.