Quotes About Opulence

The concept of Queen is to be regal and majestic. Glamour is part of us and we want to be dandy.

Twenty-five years earlier there had not been more than five men in the United States worth as much as five million dollars, and there were less than twenty who were worth a million. Now, however, the New York Tribune would report that there were several hundred men in the city of New York alone who were worth at least a million, and a number who were worth at least twenty million.

Clark's building was to be the most opulent and lavish and at the same time tasteful that New York had ever seen, far outdoing any apartment house that then

In the Clark apartment doorknobs and plates and hinges were overlaid with sterling silver.) There were inlaid marble floors, wrought-iron staircases, walls wainscoted in rare marbles and choice hardwoods, bronze lamp fixtures and railings in the elevator lobbies.

Clark's building was to be the most opulent and lavish and at the same time tasteful that New York had ever seen, far outdoing any apartment house that then existed anywhere in the world in splendor of detail, size and scale of its apartments, and costliness of its appointments. Its interiors would replicate, and even surpass, the mansions of Goulds, Vanderbilts, Astors and Goelets.

James Hazen Hyde gave his $200,000 ball at Sherry's, at which the ballroom was transformed into a replica of the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles.

Because of that, the buzz and whisper is different. Both more hushed and more thrilled, like a formation of Oprah Winfreys are about to parachute down through the clouds, giving cars out to you, and you, and also you.

There is nothing around me but money, money, money.

You will have money and all that money can buy.

Las Vegas is sort of like how God would do it if he had money.

Being rich means making everything inconvenient. Remember to attribute that when you quote it. T-A-L-T-O-

The super-rich watch each other like envious owls, to see who's got a slightly better loafer, a pullover made from some even more absurdly endangered fur. They will go to any lengths to find the best tailors.

It's so nice to slip into the lap of luxury.

My favorite snack is caviar.

sterlet in a silvery chafing dish, sterlet slices interlaid with crayfish tails and fresh caviar? And eggs en cocotte with mushroom purée in little dishes? And how did you like the fillets of thrush? With truffles? Quail à la génoise?

Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love

I love fruit, when it is expensive.

I don't love the word luxury because it feels Bougy to me.

Judge Moneybag will settle this case, I think!

It was always the A booth. It was always the front seat of the roller coaster. It was never "Let's not get the bottle of Cristal.

million and several billion dollars.

Every country should have at least one King Farouk.

I've never known a lot of rich people. It's not my bag.

Coco a spus, când vorbesc despre elegan??, vorbesc despre lux. Luxul trebuie s? r?mân? invizibil, dar trebuie s? se simt?. Luxul este simplu; este opusul complica?iei. Luxul este o necesitate care începe acolo unde se sfâr?esc necesit??ile. Unii oameni cred c? luxul este opusul s?r?ciei. Nu este a?a. El este opusul vulgarit??ii. Luxul este opusul prestigiului.