Quotes About Extravagance

The only way I can attract more attention is if I was towing a Spanish galleon full of half-naked cheerleaders with flare guns.

In one city, a famous gangster robbed a bank of a thousand pounds and spent the whole lot on Wonka bars that same afternoon. And when the police entered his house to arrest him, they found him sitting on the floor amidst mountains of chocolate, ripping off the wrappers with the blade of a long dagger.

Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable...

I'd rather drink my dinner out of a martini glass and follow it up with a cosmopolitan chaser.

Not even going to discuss this. I'm going to stay in my gold house and sleep on my gold bed and ski down my piles of gold like Scrooge McDuck.

They still talk about the night that Augie Pabst, a fresh-faced heir to the brewing fortune, drove a rented Falcon into the swimming pool of the Mark Thomas Inn in Monterey, California. His reviews were so good that he repeated the act at a Howard Johnson's outside Denver.

Test every work of intellect or faith, And everything that your own hands have wrought And call those works extravagance of breath That are not suited for such men as come Proud, open-eyed and laughing to the tomb.

The odd thing is that only lonely people have a tendency to festoon their abodes with extravagant items.

She wished she could help David to seem more legitimate. She wished she could do something to keep everything from being so undignified. Life seemed so uselessly extravagant.

Anybody spending $40 billion in a race to the moon for national prestige is nuts,' declared Eisenhower.

Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.

and one hundred and fifty thousand dollars' worth of jelly beans cascaded down on the expresstrip.

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?

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

He scurried off faster than if he'd woken up from a one-night stand with Lindsay Lohan.

Rich people like to hostess, so they can show off their nice stuff. Tonight

as if it was perfectly reasonable to havea small bowling alley in one's house.

Sin became a luxury, a flower set in her hair, a diamond fastened on her brow.

Love that Ritz!" he said. "A lot of folks swear by the Crescent Court, but it has nothing on the Ritz. Such a classic. And do you know that they have their own nightly guacamologist? How divine is that?

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

Le Bal du comte d'Orgel.

Surgically augmented breasts and a large vocabulary are two things that come to mind when I contemplate that which is showy and of little value, but I'm certain that you can think of others. also

As soon as I got rich, it was mimosas every morning. I was taking my friends to Six Flags every weekend. We were flying to Hawaii; we did whatever we wanted.

Everybody seems to live rather well down here in Monaco!