Quotes About Opulence

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

There are enough diamonds in existence to give everyone on the planet a cupful.

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

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Her face was concealed behind a black velvet mask strewn with diamonds, and diamonds gleaned in the candlelight among the gauzy black silk of her veils.

Jane pivoted in her desinger shoes and pressed one side of the double doors open with her fingertips; solid oak swung away from her touch, hung so perfectly it moved like rice paper.

The atmosphere of money enfolded Peese like cling film when he entered Jane's apartment. It coated his skin, thick and silken; it slid down his throat like buttermilk. It intimidated. It was meant to.

Her lips were lacquered red as the rubies waved through her hair like frozen blood, and diamonds set in platinum glittered in her ears and on her wrists and at her throat, cold as a frost-hardened dew.

Well, let me tell you something, darling: money, elite social status and the power they confer are every bit as wonderful as they're cracked up to be.

If you circle above Central Park at night in a helicopter, you're looking down at the most expensive real estate in the world. It's the American Monopoly board.

I am more rich in goods than I am in money.

You feel very romantic when you're in a ball gown. Everyone should wear one once in a while.

My greatest pleasure is still flying private. I spend between $300,000 to $500,000, depending on my year, on flying private.

You need to think Gucci when you are camping - make things as luxurious as you can.

I used to have a gym in the house. I thought that was a fantastic luxury.

Gold and diamonds are nice, but clean, crisp, controlled water has long been the preeminent hallmark of the rich.

The next eleven floors held a single apartment per floor and belonged to the principals of hedge funds and private equity firms and one Argentine model and her soccer player boyfriend who spent no more than a week out of the year in New York.

there are two fundamentally different kinds of wealth:

Decadence is wonderful.

I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion.

I am a glutton for a beautiful hotel. I am so easily smitten by high thread counts.

Sometimes the buzz of reading about others eating comes from the voyeuristic thrill of seeing how the other half lives: the gold leaf and truffles or - in the case of Trimalchio's feast in Petronius' 'Satyricon' - the dormice and honey.

I thrive on cheese and champagne.

Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.