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Quotes About Opulence

Wine is smart, sexy, and classy.
~ Cynthia Bailey
If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.
~ Gary Vaynerchuk
Silver and ermine and red faces full of port wine.
~ John Betjeman
There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
~ D. L. Hughley
Drake's home is its own fantasia, a single-level ranch that sprawls in various wings over 7,500 square feet, from the game room to the gym to Drake's master bedroom with Jacuzzi. The pool is like a scene out of Waterworld, with a bar inside a grotto, waterfalls, and a slide that drops thirty feet through the rock.
~ Michael Paterniti
'China rich' is the new 'crazy rich.' It's a new level of outrageousness. It comes from this world where overnight fortunes have been made, but the fortunes are so ginormous compared to anything we've ever seen in the history of the world.
~ Kevin Kwan
I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.
~ Brigitte Bardot
If you look at us as a company, what's the one thing that's consistent? It has to be the biggest, the best, the greatest. My father, over the years, has bought some of the best mansions of the world. It's just something he loves.
~ Eric Trump
Casino gambling is colorful and dramatic and theatrical.
~ Steve Wynn
Let them eat cake.
~ Marie Antoinette
The Greek inhabitants are very rich in gold and precious stones
~ Roderick Beaton
money so they say is the root of all evil today
~ Roger Waters
Her voice harkening to the period of her heels -- Louis XV.
~ Ronald Firbank
We had parties that Nero would have been ashamed to attend
~ Ronnie Hawkins
He was rich, that she knew. The rich aren't difficult to find, she thought, they live in big wika-iganan.
~ Louise Erdrich
The secrets of Newport, Clea thought. The way money and power could buy a way out of any trouble and into someone else's fortune. All that was really necessary was luck and a complete lack of conscience.
~ Luanne Rice
He can't get broke so long as he is stuffed with money.
~ Lyman Frank Baum
I'm surprised you didn't have her in white with half a dozen trainbearers," Louis said under his breath. Lena flashed him a smile as if he had said something warm and encouraging instead of sneering. Ivy was very quick on the uptake, she would notice if Lena glowered.
~ Maeve Binchy
an airplane hangar. The man from Hollywood had too much money. That was his
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Nothing is interesting other than deleting your name from the book of poverty and misery.
~ Auliq Ice
Decide to be rich! Hate poverty strong.
~ Jaachynma N.E. Agu
AFFLUENCE  (A'FFLUENCE)   n.s.[affluence, Fr. affluentia, Lat.]1. The act of flowing to any place; concourse. It is almost always used figuratively. I shall not relate the affluence of young nobles from hence into Spain, after the voice of our prince being there had been noised.Wotton.2. Exuberance
~ Samuel Johnson
filling every space of the room. The piles of diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls, sapphires
~ Sarah Mlynowski
The best thing about flying first class....was that you could be as nutty as a fruitcake and were still treated like the Queen of Sheba.
~ Sarah-Kate Lynch