Quotes About Opulence

A feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees.

We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We drown in the thick sweetness of our sensual excess, and our shameless opulence, while our discontent souls suffocate in the arid wasteland of spiritual deprivation.

Tatal ei radiaza o mie de culori, opal, rosu-capsuna, ruginiu-inchis, verde crud; un miros de ulei si metal, senzatia de cheie potrivita in yala, zornaitul cheilor lui pe inel in timp ce merge.

The apartment is sleek and shiny, full of deep carpets that swallow noise.

The "palace" took up an entire fifth of the city

When you are rich, people treat you with respect.

I took the train to New York and it is hard to convey to you my first impressions as I left Grand Central Depot. I found myself in a city of extraordinary opulence and abject poverty, of astonishing elegance and extreme depravity, the two living so close by that I only had to turn my head to pass from one to the other.

It seemed that there was nothing you could find here that was not expensive and very little that was actually necessary.

This wasn't a house. It was a movie set. The art, the hardwood floors, the rugs, the grand piano, the Italian lighting and furniture

All that was missing was the hookah and the belly dancers. Charles le Mesurier was sitting in

Of course, he didn't go in for ordinary stuff like Dulux or anything like that. He had to have those poncey colours from Farrow & Ball. Eighty quid a tin with names like Vert De Terre, Ivy and Arsenic.' He spat out the names with evident distaste.

Print publications have to be as luxurious an experience as possible. You have to feel it coming off the page. You have to see photographs and pieces that you couldn't possibly see anywhere else.

When Puffy asked me to do the video, I said yes. Cuz it's all about the Benjamins!

When you think about the Catholic Church, it is a bit flamboyant, in't it?

I'm lucky because I do get to fly first-class now.

Every time I fly first class, I'm like, 'Damn dude, this is sick!'

I'm not particularly fond of the Hamptons.

The only really expensive thing in our family budget, frankly, is private air travel.

By God!' Christopher exclaimed. 'I loathe your whole beastly buttered-toast, mutton-chopped, carpet-slippered, rum-negused comfort as much as I loathe your beastly Riviera-palaced, chauffeured, hydraulic-lifted, hot-house aired beastliness of fornication.…

What's more, he's just become the richest boy in Sweet Valley!

the floor was expensive cream-colored travertine

La pelouse partait de la plage et grimpait sur cinq cents mètres jusqu'à la porte d'entrée, enjambait des cadrans solaires, des sentiers pavés de briques et des jardins flamboyants, atteignait enfin la maison et se brisait contre ses murs, dans une explosion de vigne vierge, comme emportée par son élan

Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.

Food and wine are my extravagances.