Quotes About Opulence

This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it." [ Women Know Everything! ]

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.

Bitch I got money to blow, gettin it in. Lettin these bills fall over your skin.

Im in the mood to get faded, so please bring your finest.

Im on a 24 hour champagne diet. Spillin while Im sippin I encourage you to try it.

I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter.

The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is a ritualistic justification of their possessions.

Pink champagne -- that's the kind of life we've both been used to. It might be a little difficult to -- do you like beer?

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

Gold nugget jewelry is bad.

Understate—or as Valentina said, 'diminish.' Let your face be more important than your costume. If you think you may be wearing too much jewelry, you are. Ask your husband how he thinks you look. If he says, 'That's a lovely dress,' try again. What he should say is, 'You look lovely!

Survival is something only the rich take lightly

Lord Lyle paused at the top of the steps and glanced around the massive space with its hammer-beam roof sporting angels with the Warren shield—three gold swans on a blue background. His expression was a mixture of awe and amusement. "Good Lord, lassie, I feel like Henry the Eighth." She bit back the impulse to say that even if he took six wives, Charlotte Warren still wouldn't count among their number.

She had no time for anything humdrum, banal, or mundane - to the extent that the task of cleaning her desk at every night had to be done with a bottle of Perrier water and Chanel No. 5.

emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea...

Cuando era niña, para mí el lujo eran los abrigos de pieles, los vestidos de noche y las mansiones a orillas del mar.

My favorite hotels are anything Aman, because their properties are always so beautiful.

Prosperity is full of friends.

The cream and hot butter mingled and overflowed separating each glucose bead of caviar from its fellows, capping it in white and gold.

Ah well, to the journalist every country is rich.

It is the most opulent, most gorgeous land on earth—a land whose wisest are but little wiser than its dullest; a land where the rulers have minds like little children and the law-givers believe in Santa Claus; where ugly women control strong men——

She's got an indiscreet voice,' I remarked. 'It's full of——' I hesitated. 'Her voice is full of money,' he said suddenly.

Ta oli jõudnud ikka, kus surma ei peeta enam viirastuslikuks ootamatuseks, ja kui ta nüüd esimest korda enda ümber ringi vaatas ja kõrget ning nooblit halli ja halli kõrval teisi niisama luksuslikke ruume nägi, hakkas ta kurbusesse segunema aukartus ning uhkus.

Then it was all true. I saw the skins of tigers flaming in his palace on the Grand Canal; I saw him opening a chest of rubies to ease, with their crimson-lighted depths, the gnawings of his broken heart.