Quotes About Opulence

The most luxurious item is a beautiful bed and beautiful, simple sheets.

I literally have a private jet on call at all times.

I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.

I just think white jewelry to me, it look the richest. It's clean and rich.

I like jewelry. Big rings, big necklaces. Shoes, belts, luggage.

I don't wear jewelry, so I wear furs. I don't have diamonds.

People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.

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European opulence is literally a scandal for it was built on the backs of slaves, it fed on the blood of slaves, and owes its very existence to the soil and subsoil of the underdeveloped world. Europe's well-being and progress were built with the sweat and corpses of blacks, Arabs, Indians, and Asians. This we are determined never to forget.

It is impossible to overdo luxury

Only super-rich folk built fancy doors. You needed money coming out your ears before you spent it on a door.

Despite noble depravity, there was something intoxicating about high society.

Shallan sat down on the plush, white bed, and sank almost down to her neck. What had they made the thing out of? Air and wishes? It felt luxurious.

Rich people, she decided, loved to stick with a theme.

Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their lives. Different houses, clothes, cars. Or thoughts, dreams. But for the poor there is nothing but compulsory grayness, the only form of expression available to poverty.

Perhaps tranquility is what distinguishes the environment in which wealthy people live, he thought. - Kurt Wallander

The luxuriously rich are not simply kept comfortably warm, but unnaturally hot; as I implied before, they are cooked, of course _à la mode_.

The odalisques he has studded with malachite and jasper, their flesh veiled with a thousand eyes, perfumed eyes dipped in the sperm of whales.

Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.

I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.

If you are in a beautiful place where you can enjoy sunrise and sunset, then you are living like a lord.

When I was a young man, an individual with one million dollars was very rich. Anyone with a few millions more was considered richer than rich.

Fine dining is an occasional treat for most people.

There are perks to being the partner of a professional athlete - we were invited into beautiful homes, enjoyed stunning sponsor cars, got special treatment at restaurants, and attended many exquisite functions.