Quotes About Opulence

I have always preferred satin sheets.

I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace.

I love diamonds and sapphires.

Have you driven a Rolls-Royce? There is a difference between a Rolls-Royce and a Nano.

Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best.

Let's just say I have expensive taste.

Where my tastes in music are concerned, I'm a real maximalist.

Go to the Savoy for a classic British tea and to see what a $350 million renovation can do for a hotel.

Described by his biographer as an "overweight, rheumatic, vain, pompous, gluttonous inebriate," he had run through several fortunes totaling almost £100,000 with his spendthrift ways and aristocratic pretensions, including expenditures for a heavily mortgaged, thousand-acre New Jersey estate with piazzas, a deer park, painted drawing rooms, a wardrobe holding thirty-one coats and fifty-eight vests, and carriages embossed with the coat of arms he claimed as his patrimony.

He's a little plump for my taste, but I always say a man can't be too fat if enough gold comes with it.

the world had an abundance of money.

As your cash flow grows, you can indulge in some luxuries.

Why, the man is rich as wedding-cake.

For the 21st birthday of an older brother, a special train had brought London visitors to a banquet at which they consumed 240 quarts of soup, 60 partridges, and 50 pheasants, served by white-gloved footmen in blue-and-silver uniforms.

Pour élever un État du dernier degré de barbarie au plus haut degré d'opulence, il ne faut que trois choses : la paix, des taxes modérées et une administration tolérable de la justice. Tout le reste est amené par le cours naturel des choses.

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.

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches; which, in their eye, is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves.

Oil-lamps of filigree and gold illuminated the great room while the profusion of precious objects far exceeded what he had encountered in the hallway. It was an ostentatious display of wealth that bordered on the obscene.

He was the antithesis of the gaudy mafiosi

While the Venezuelan people starve, the Chavistas post photographs on Facebook of their European vacations, their lavish parties, their designer outfits, the bouquets of fresh flowers that adorn their homes.

People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars.

Parties are the nightly ritual of the sophisticated society.

The office containing these two men was of such hushed opulence that it seemed as though their words were borne to one another on small plush pillows.

Life is like a beach chair when you can afford one