Quotes About Opulence

When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings.

Whenever I have to go out or do something, it must be glamour.

Gold is my favorite color.

I'm buying everything on the Gold Coast.

I have a love for anything gold.

The table groans under the heavy and blood-bought luxuries gathered with painstaking care, at home and abroad. Fields, forests, rivers and seas, are made tributary here. Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste.

I can afford to say what I wish.

É melhor viver em meio aos problemas com o Deus triúno do que viver na opulência doentia de sonhos gerados pelo pecado original.

El rey tenía un palacio soberbio donde había acumulado riquezas y objetos de arte maravillosos.

All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.

That diamond encrusted goat's skull is the height of good taste!

The waiters' eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet – paté, Whitstable oysters, a sole, and a favorite salad of the Nizam of Hyderabad made of shredded five-pound notes.

He is so rich, he has no room to shit.

They were new money, without a doubt: so new it shrieked. Their clothes looked as it they'd covered themselves in glue, then rolled around in hundred-dollar bills.

His appetite was enormous: he would eat a breakfast of haddock, poached eggs, bacon, chicken and woodcock before a day's shooting, lunch and dinner of ten to fourteen courses, elaborate teas, snacks of lobster salad or cold chicken, with a cold chicken left by his bed at night in case he became hungry.

Isn't it a lovely ball?" She looked around at the sea of lace and tulle and silk, the blaze of lights, the laughter and the music and the sway and swirl of movement. "I wish everyone could be as happy as I am.

An enormous gleaming grand piano stood in the center, its legs decently masked.

Standing in this glittering room with the music in the background and the press and hum of scores of people, the clink of glasses, the faint smells of warmth, champagne, stiff material and sometimes of flowers and perfume

This doesn't look like anything you'd find mere mortals riding in!

Life's too short for minimalism.

I believe in a glamorous life, and I live a glamorous life.

and on her head she wore a gold crown studded with diamonds, pearls, rubies, sapphires and emeralds.

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

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