Quotes About Opulence

The lady in the Rolls-Royce car is more damaging to morale than a fleet of Göring's bombing-planes.

The mind has a definite way of clothing one's thoughts in appropriate physical equivalents. Think in terms of poverty and you will live in poverty. Think in terms of opulence and you will attract opulence. Through the eternal law of harmonious attraction, one's thoughts always clothe themselves in material things appropriate unto their nature.

Everything in Pulchra's house is fabulously expensive

I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.

Lake Como has always been a magnet for the elite.

For me, true luxury can be caviar or a day with no meetings, no appointments and no schedule.

Even the brokest Saudi got a Mercedes.

I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.

Designers from Milan think that 'more is more,' like Cavalli and Dolce & Gabbana.

I had more money than I could spend in million lifetimes.

The accouterments of life were so rich and varied, so elaborated, that almost no place at all was left for life itself. Each and every accessory was so costly and beautiful that it had an existence above and beyond the purpose it was meant to serve – confusing the observer and absorbing attention.

The lights, the azaleas, the dresses, the pink faces, the velvet chairs, all became one beautiful flying wheel.

Lords and ladies,

our landlord and landlady. Their house, just outside the town, was quite a little chateau, and the evil that dwelt within its highly polished salons, that reclined on its lace-covered beds, and was coiled deep in the stuffing of its exquisitely upholstered chairs and sofas, was enough to make the blood turn icy in the veins.

Manhattan's lights spread out below -- this firework show of wealth and power outburns the feeble stars.

From "Ships" The marketplaces of the Imagination have shops that are grand and opulent, but not of any great duration. Their transactions are brief, they dispose of their merchandise swiftly, and they are immediately liquidated.

They spend money like a pimp with a week to live.

Cultura demais mata o corpo da gente, cara, filmes demais, livros demais, palavras demais,... tinha biblioteca de Alexandria separando nossos corpos.

Far from its outward appearance, the rain forest was not a garden of easy abundance, but precisely the opposite. Its quiet, shaded halls of leafy opulence were not a sanctuary but, rather, the greatest natural battlefield anywhere on the planet, hosting an unremitting and remorseless fight for survival that occupied every single one of its inhabitants, every minute of every day. Though

Het vermogen van de rijkste vierhonderd Amerikanen is op dit moment groter dan dat van de armste honderdvijftig miljoen Amerikanen gezamenlijk.

I don't have to worry about the money at all, really. My dad left me with this trust fund. I can sit home and watch the viewscreen and drink vodka martinis, or go out and play hovertennis. It's terrific, what a life.

And recently, we installed another word in its place which, to their minds, has a wholly positive connotation. We say 'Gluttony'. They say 'Consumerism'.

I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.