Quotes About Extravagance

Liberace was a lovely guy.

Luxury means that you show the way you dress with eccentricity.

Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.

The Obamas do not seem abashed to enjoy their newfound largesse. They now own a $2.5 million home in Chicago's Hyde Park and a mansion in Washington, D.C., worth $8 million. The D.C. property, in the exclusive Kalorama neighborhood, has 8,200 square feet, including nine bedrooms, a two-tiered flagstone terrace with a courtyard and parking space for 8–10 cars.

They understand not only evil, it seemed, but the extravagance of tricks with which evil presents itself as good.

There are few better ways to attract attention than by throwing money around.

If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it.

Speedboats, made-up aristocratic titles, exploding dildos… You're not living in a fucking TV series, Villanelle.

I've seen spring come to the orchard every year as far back as I can remember and I've never grown tired of it. Oh, the wonder of it! The outrageous beauty! God didn't have to give us cherry blossoms you know. He didn't have to make apple trees and peach trees burst into flower and fragrance. But God just loves to splurge. He gives us all this magnificence and then, if that isn't enough, He provides fruit from such extravagance.

No one ever pretended that shopping for anything is a rational experience. If it were, would there be Fluffernutter? Laceless sneakers? Porkpie hats? Would the Chia Pet even exist?

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

Tom Ford Fucking Fabulous

As a matter of fact, Ona spent more credits on the window shades alone than you will make in your entire lifetime and that's if you live to be 185." "And that's meant to make me feel better?" I said. "No, that is meant to inform you. I am your computer not your nanny.

Jacob Zuma built a 2 million rand swimming pool, but no one in the family knows how to swim

Yes. Because every family needs a laser for thier family jet.

Men, chocolate, and coffee are all better rich.

A farm is like a man—however great the income, if there is extravagance but little is left.

When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of materials which would be discarded indignantly by the poorest tramp in Whitechapel.

She felt about her zester the way some women do about a pair of spiky red shoes--a frivolous splurge, good only for parties, but oh so lovely.

Banquet: an affair where you eat a lot of food you don't want before talking about something you don't understand to a crowd of people who don't want to hear you

A bottle of perfume brought in more foreign revenue than a barrel of petroleum. A Paris frock was worth more than ten tons of coal. These very equations were evidence, in the eyes of some people, of the indefensible extravagance of haute couture.

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny