Quotes About Opulence

The entire city of Las Vegas—plastic opulence, treasure for the taking, vulgar towers, and cocktail waitresses with improbable breasts—is built on the self-delusion of the Beta Male.

To die with style, live in the Baroque.

Everybody agreed that the styles for that summer of 1914 were the most extreme since the Restoration

The more things had cost the better they were and the more they were talked about, which was the best of all. "Three million dollars!" people would say about the palace, and their voices would be lowered as if they were speaking of the dwelling place of deity.

It is as if, when unhappy with the opulent present, we look to the impoverished past to blame our unhappiness on the dead, who faced daunting natural obstacles, rather than the living, who so often don't.

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.

Let us remark, by the way, that the hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. This hatred would involve the hatred of the arts.

An opulent priest is a contradiction.

The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. This hatred would involve the hatred of the arts.

he, how many beds do you think this hall alone would hold? Monseigneur's dining-room? exclaimed

I want the superfluous, the useless, the extravagant, excess, that which serves no purpose.

His life was one long extravaganza, like living inside a Faberge egg.

I didn't get this dressed up to watch you mess around in the gutter with a bunch of motorcycles." "They are pretty to look at," said Jace. "You have to admit that." "So am I," said Isabelle.

out of it glided ladies in dresses that trailed along in a rustle of silk, men who swept their hats off with the same grandeur with which they swung their canes, liveried servants with impassive expressions, expectant drivers and porters bearing lighted candles.

She drank like a Czar and sang like a broken squeezebox and danced like the Sugarplum Fairy cutting loose at last

She beckoned me to follow her, and we passed from the portico into rooms whose magnificence has stolen the words from the mouths of the poets.

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

Can you imagine opening a bottle of champagne with a bottle opener. I can't. It would eliminate half the fun.

Chocolate, men, coffee — some things are better rich.

MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion.

he had lived the existence of a sated aristocrat;

Oh wow! There's a great big Range Rover pulled up outside and a big girl's getting out!' Jonnie yelled. 'I think we might like her after all if she lets us have a ride in her big posh car!

Jan had never seen a really sumptuous establishment like Lancut, but he had worked often at Castle Gorka and could see the vast difference between how a count lived, with his fifty horses and forty servants, and how his peasants lived, with meat once a year, a new suit of clothes once every ten years, little medicine and less education.