Quotes About Opulence

If I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me pleasure.

Tom has a gilded life which I have had a glimpse of. Yes, he does travel in private jets.

I love Tom Ford loafers.

One thing I know about the rich, being rich, is that you can take money from me and tomorrow, I'm still going to be rich.

The shiny, varnished seating,

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

He was fabulously wealthy, he was astonishingly handsome, and he held one of the highest ranks in the country.

Las habitaciones de hotel de 34.000 dólares por noche, la hamburguesa cubierta de polvo de oro, que ofrecía Richard Nouveau en el Wall Street Burger Shoppe por 175 dólares, el martini de 10.000 dólares del hotel Algonquin, que se servía con un diamante en la copa…

houses for the gentry that are wondrous to behold.

Domaine Leroy Musigny Grand Cru

exertion. We live in an opulent blandness—overfed, overtended, overentertained, and overly preoccupied with ourselves. But men need aggressive physical lives. They need contest and conquest, strain and struggle. Otherwise, we lose ourselves to softness and effeminacy. It is not much of a surprise that a New Testament word that is translated effeminate from the original Greek actually means "soft through luxury." It is a warning.

I love crazy, gaudy bling.

I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world.

Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! We love Versace. Versace is the greatest designer of all time!

If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.

I love when people walk into my house and start grinning: "This is too much - this is so you!" Why give people brown cardboard when you can give them embroidered, crystal-flecked organza?

Give me Caviar Kaspia and give me a hamburger. I love the two extremes.

All millionaires love a baked apple.

Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.

There's no nobility in poverty.

While a hidden orchestra played funeral marches, the guests were waited on by naked negresses wearing only slippers and stockings in cloth of silver embroidered with tears.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

You know the sultans used to light their garden parties with turtles? They'd put candles on their backs and let them wander around. Hundreds of them.

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.