Quotes About Extravagance

Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful.

In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

Some watches I bought, I think now, 'Why the hell did I pay that much for a watch?'

In the '80s, it got to the point where we'd have shows with a hundred looks. You'd want to order a pizza before it was over!

My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf, velvets and mirrors, Oriental rugs and marble.

il est curieux de voir à quelles extravagantes rêveries peut donner lieu une science aussi « positive » que veut l'être l'astronomie moderne.

We had a creamed turnip soup followed by a terrine that was composed of delightful layers of goodness knows what. Then a poached fillet of sole with pommes dauphine and finally a baba au rhum and coffee. All this was accompanied by a crisp white wine, and I was frankly ready for a nap when we returned to the Rue Cambon.

Her Majesty's daughter Princess Helena and her granddaughter Princess Thora are visiting. Here's the menu: consommé aux fines herbes, cheese croutons, poached fillet of sole with parsley sauce and potatoes à la crème, puree of squab à la chasseur, creamed celery, pork chops with apples, red cabbage and duchesse potatoes, iced pudding à la Prince Albert, canary pudding with vanilla sauce, anchovy toast.

Pirate gold isn't a thing to be hoarded or utilized. It is something to squander and throw to the four winds, for the fun of seeing the golden specks fly.

Pirate gold isn't a thing to be hoarded or utilized. It is something to squander and throw to the four winds, for the fun of seeing the golden specks fly.

He was the kind of person who, if you asked him for one of something, gave you two instead.

Privacy was an extravagance of lords: everyone else slept and made love downstairs in the communal hall.

Excess in Apparel is another costly Folly. The very Trimming of the vain World would cloath all the naked one.

Tall, black-haired, rouged, Kaiser-moustached, he cackled and screamed in weird attitudes, giggling in high soprano, hiding his little black teeth behind an exquisitely gloved hand - the 'poseur' absolute. He was said to have slept with Sarah Bernhard and vomited for a week afterwards.

A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

And that new Cadillac she came up in must have cost a bundle. Ten, twelve thousand, at least. Maybe more.

It's scented! Your wedding invitations are scented?" "It's meant to be lavender." "No, Dex - it's money. It smells of money.

Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance.

When people tossed around $100,000 like a Frisbee, there was usually a good reason.

poor old Dom Pérignon. Do you know what he said the first time he tasted the stuff?" "'I am drinking the stars!

I don't get why prom is like a mini-wedding these days...No one should spend that kind of money for a high school dance.

Acapulco always had a heart for extravagance, so when at last she made her fall from grace, she did so with all the spectacular pageantry the world had come to expect of her. The cartels painted the town red.

By vice, dissipation, and extravagance, [the nobility] have been driven to the most despicable, and often the most atrocious actions, for which persons in a humble line would be exemplarily punished, while men and women of rank claim the privilege of being infamous.