Quotes About Opulence

As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.

I wear gold all of the time. I collect gold like a magpie.

I have a lot of sapphires in my collection.

If you have caviar, the way to eat it is by the spoonful. Don't combine it with shrimp, pomegranate seeds and huitlacoche.

I like to be surrounded by splendid things.

In SW1 you don't really need survival skills, you just exist.

I want to know who is spending $1,000 on a sweater! That makes no sense!

You've got to be rich to have a swing like that.

The Universe is a masterpiece of abundance.

Life is meant to be abundant --- in all areas.

And on that table was the most impressive assortment of food: salmon mousse in the shape of a salmon; cold chickens; quail; a huge platter of oysters, shrimp and lobster claws; all kinds of salads; fruits and cheese. It was all so beautifully arranged that I hardly dared to touch it. At one end was a huge bowl of peaches.

Princes have far more toys than they need.

there was something extravagantly excessive about the peony from the start, as if God had intended to suggest with this particular bloom that you could have too much of a good thing.

It may be one of the most beautiful hotels in the entire world. Were you to discount hotels that are constructed primarily to house sheikhs—hotels that will never house you or me—you would have to conclude that this was a truly remarkable place.

Footmen stood stiffly with trays laden with foaming goblets and plates filled with tiny delicacies, such as sautéed scallops, salt cod and caviar on potato pancakes, basil palmiers, and roasted brie with gooseberries.

high heels are each big enough to bury an Egyptian in.

People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.

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.

an enormous stately home. Mr Spud named it 'Freshbum Towers'.

There's more than enough for the many, but somehow never enough for the few

Her idea of roughing it is not taking the second footman

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