Quotes About Opulence

At one time, very wealthy ladies only wore real jewels. Now they want costume.

A big diamond necklace is nouveau riche, really. People who have wealth a long time don't wear such things.

I try to wear $1 million a day. At least.

The sole purpose of a crown is to make anyone not wearing one feel like an insignificant pauper. They're obscene to the point of satire.

My mom wears a lot of gold.

The Hiltons know how to put on a good wedding, that's all I can say.

I once had money to burn. I'd fly to Barbados for the weekend. I lived in a twenty-two-room mansion and had my pick of four luxury cars.

It's not normal to go into a house and see a pond in the middle of the living room full of baby sharks. It's not normal to go to someone's garage and see a private plane.

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

I have a Lamborghini Diablo. I have Mercedes 600, a 500, a 300, a 190. I have a Ferrari Testarossa, a Porsche speedster.

There's a difference between being posh and being rich.

I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.

I'm rich, freakin' rich. It's crazy.

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.

Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.

looked like enough moolah to choke all the cows in Carnation.

You want diamonds? I'll give you diamonds. I'll shower you in them. Hell, I'll get you a gown made out of them. But it's going to be skimpy.

There were dozens of limos and taxis and MBs and Jaguars. Suitcases were going in and out and doormen in red uniforms were whistling for the next taxi in line and guys I took to be tourists who looked like they made a lot of money were with tall slender women who looked like they cost a lot of money to keep up. None of them looked like gunsels or thugs or art thief-maniacs, but you can never be sure.

Big lots,' I said, seeing the eighty-year-old oaks and shady lawns. The houses were set way back and had iron fences and stone drives. The harder to hear your neighbors scream, my dear,' was David's answer, and I sent my head up and down in agreement.

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.

I think you are just like this house, Evangeline. Rich and fine on the outside, but no one's got a clue what's going on inside.

The forces that will drive the whole world to become rich are temperate self-interest and temperate governance. As Adam Smith put it in 1755, "Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.