Quotes About Opulence

Behavior was better when cinemas were opulent.

Built in an elegant fusion of Italianate, French, and early Disney styles, this magnificent estate offers a thousand bathrooms for all of your executive Cinderella needs...

And besides, in the end, perhaps love demands marble palaces, white peacocks and swans.

Money gives you the luxury of not caring about it. You can affect to find it crass and vulgar, but see how crass and vulgar it is when there's none of it in your pocket.

De Atahualpa se decía que tenía miles de doncellas en su serrallo y una multitud incalculable de esclavos

Padre Hurtado. Sostenía este hombre de claro corazón que la crisis moral se produce cuando los mismos católicos que viven en la opulencia van a misa mientras niegan a sus trabajadores un salario digno. Estas palabras debieran grabarse en los billetes de mil pesos, para no olvidarlas nunca.

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.

Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

Choupette literally has the finest tuna, the finest of everything a cat could ever have.

I grew up a big fan of the J. R. Ewing character of the 'Dallas' TV show, and I grew up around people who were very similar to J. R.: they had come into a ton of money. And they loved to flaunt it and loved to drive fancy cars and wear the big cowboy hats and nice suits.

I really don't understand minimalism. It is so polite and boring. If you don't want anyone to notice you, you should stay home and grow your own vegetables.

I like reading books where people with a lot of money use it to do whatever they want. Like stay in expensive hotels and do whatever drugs they want and fly wherever they want.

People don't want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.

dined on trout and truffles in the Bois de Boulogne beneath chandeliers that hung from the chestnut trees

I wore a blue silk Brunswick jacket, close-fitting and edged with dark fur, and a matching petticoat, both quilted with a pattern of diamonds and swirling flowers. My gloves were bright green kidskin, and on my head I wore the one extravagant hat I'd brought, the sweeping brim covered in black velvet and crowned with a profusion of scarlet ribbons. I, Eliza Hamilton.

living in the palace of Versailles must have felt like being imprisoned in a constantly turning kaleidoscope.

He was a true voluptuary, in his own modest way, with a voluptuary's genius for softening the world around him.

In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It's jarring to see him surrounded by the ordinary objects in the room. Like taking the lid off a pot and finding a fanged viper instead of stew.

If I get home, I'll be so stinking rich, I'll be able to pay someone to do my hearing.

But the real star of the evening is the food. Tables laden with delicacies line the walls. Everything you can think of, and things you have never dreamed of, lie in wait.

In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags.

To Trump, being a billionaire means plating everything in gold and slapping his name everywhere in huge block letters. It means that he gets to say whatever pops into his head and never has to say he is sorry.

The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.

To a common man, the opulence of the day makes no sense but to a philosopher, it is as clear as a night in the southern France.