Quotes About Opulence

A]nything might be purchased at Rome.

Some women will do anything for a glass of champagne and a safe bed.

If you know how to live in Vegas you can have the best time.

La crudeltà è un lusso da oziosi, come le droghe e le camicie di seta.

JLB: El lujo me parece una vulgaridad.

No such thing, the queen said, as too many sequins.

I wanted the music to be full, to surround us, to lift us like the swell, so I rented a bloody orchestra. You only live once.

Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh.

Though you add carriage to carriage, you will not be carried more comfortably.

In jewels and brocades and a whirl of musk, Alice flounced triumphantly out of her chariot, her three little dogs frisking and barking after her. She raised her thickly painted face to the Duke.

On the main street of one village she passed a vast house, pillared and walled, with shutters over the windows and a pair of stone lions guarding the steps, and she thought that perhaps she might live there, dusting the lions each morning and patting their heads good night.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms—greed for life, for money, for love, for knowledge—has marked the upward surge of mankind. (Gordon Gekko, in Wall Street.

Life's too short for minimalism.

Jeez Louise. I know why rich people are so thin: it's from trekking around their humongous houses the whole time.

An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.

I have been rich, and I have been poor. Believe me baby, rich is better!

It was a real party of swells.

We're building prisons all over the world and calling them luxury condos.

You should let your wife recline all day long on soft armchairs, in which she sinks into a veritable bath of eiderdown or feathers; you should encourage in every way that does no violence to your conscience, the inclination which women have to breathe no other air but the scented atmosphere of a chamber seldom opened, where daylight can scarcely enter through the soft, transparent curtains.

Tropical flowers rioted over her plump body.

Rich people can afford anything, even better laughter.

That red carpet has to be felt to be believed.

My clothes are for the international jet set. They are very much for the red carpet.

Rich folks always talk hard times.