Quotes About Extravagance

Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.

No man is rich enough to waste his money in putting on style.

I'll know I'm famous when I have five Ferraris, seven houses, Cameron Diaz on my arm and a little man following me with a huge bag of money.

Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.

I'm not scared to spend money. If you go out with me one night, you will understand that.

Talking about money is garish. It's tacky.

Spending money you don't have for things you don't need to impress people you don't like.

Wasting money puts you in a real party mood.

Where once they used to say, 'Cocaine is God's way of saying you have too much money' - now, maybe EDM is. Come ye lords and princelings of douchedom.

I love to spend money.

It's the lifestyle of easy money, fast cars and supermodels that keep me going.

To be extravagant you need money. True. But you do not need your own money.

I don't indulge in anything extravagant but I can't keep money in the bank.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.

I've always listened to a lot of rap. It's all, 'Look at this car that cost me so much money, look at this Champagne.' It's super fun.

My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get any better than this?

Rich colors are typical of a rich nature.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.

Ye who, borne about in chariots and sedans know no fatigue but that of idleness.

The old man always used too much of everything, too many lemons, too much sugar, as if halfmeasures at anything were beneath him.

Nothing could've been more easy to predict, than that it was of no avail for him to have right on his side when his adversary had influence and wealth, and therefore could so victoriously justify any extravagancies that he might think proper to commit. This maxim was completely illustrated in the sequel. Wealth and despotism easily know how to engage those laws as coadjutors of their oppression, which were perhaps at first intended for the safeguards of the poor.

The Stoic philosopher and playwright Seneca is said to have owned five hundred tripod tables with ivory legs—no small irony, since he was a vocal critic of the empire's extravagances.