Quotes About Opulence

Then there was a boom as Tom Buchanan shut the rear windows and the caught wind died out about the room, and the curtains and the rugs and the two young women ballooned slowly to the floor.

happened that on a warm windy evening I drove over to East Egg to see two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all. Their house was even more elaborate than

Her voice is full of money

so I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbour's lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires

It was full of money—that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it…. High in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl….

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—

wherever people played polo and were rich together.

The plain man's house was palatial, even by the

We're seeing diamonds coming back into favor.

All festival food is expensive.

I'm filthy rich!

I love the finer things.

Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.

I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.

I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.

When we think of India, most of us are in fact thinking of Rajasthan, that large splotch of dun-colored desert in the country's northwest which, from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, was ruled by a succession of maharajas whose sense of color, opulence, and splendor created the most enduring images of India in the West.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.

The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.

Excess is success.

The polished oak floors reflected the light of the overhead crystal chandelier and gleaned under the plush deep red Persian rug.

Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money.

I'm so fond of luxury

I never met a man who had such a love of money.