Quotes About Opulence

He sat back, dropped heavily into his gold Platner chair.

The room was rococo. I had a strong sense of gilt.

The invulnerable, matchless and exclusive live a life like dazzling fish in a scintillating seascape behind glass. Everybody may admire them, nobody can touch them and there is no fear or guilt in overexposing opulence and fortune.( "Keeping up with the Joneses")

Christine Frederick's rational kitchen had been driven by efficiency: the fewest steps, the fewest utensils. The new ideal kitchens were far more opulent. These were dollhouses for grown women, packed with the maximum number of trinkets. The aim was not to save labor but to make the laborers forget they were working.

Jeremy Beaumont-Jones had been lucky enough to be born rich. He wasn't in the mad oligarch class but once you're past a certain point, the sheer weight of your money sucks in wealth like a financial singularity. If you're sensible enough not to blow it on race horses, cocaine or musical theatre, then it becomes a perpetual-motion money making machine.

One Hyde Park squatted next to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel like a stack of office furniture, and with all the elegance and charm of the inside of a photocopier. Albeit a brand new photocopier that doubled as a fax and document scanner.

Never in our country's history has a generation been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged—and yet so empty.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

I wanted to create a bridal collection that is both a natural extension of the mainline eveningwear but, at the same time, reflects the opulence of such an important celebratory event.

In each of my homes, I have a leopard room. I don't know why, but I do. It's like my lounge next to the dressing rooms.

There aren't any poor cable hosts.

I want to go to - what's that hot country with a lot of money? - Dubai.

I like the Four Seasons. It's a nice hotel.

The Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles is the best.

I always look at the bathroom. If you have a nice bathroom in the hotel, then it's a nice hotel. It's all about the shower and the bathroom.

Comfort is very important to me. I think people live better in big houses and in big clothes.

Money is wasted on the rich.

She was clearly rich. Her handbag was too plain to be anything but incredibly expensive.

That's the whole point of being rich," I explain patiently. "What good is it if nobody's jealous?

We wear the purple

Fear and guilt are the dark angels that haunt rich men.

I love the opportunity to get properly dressed up. I've worn three Lanvin dresses, and they've all been a dream. They're so well made, with the most beautiful craftsmanship. I don't tend to go with things that are ornate - just beautifully made pieces and some classic jewelry. Let the work speak for itself. I love that.

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

The boom for luxury goods is unending. There are people who never have to worry about whether they can afford something they like. In one part of the world or another there will always be someone with money to spend on luxury.