Quotes About Opulence

green leather chairs arranged around low tables and settees; huge stone fireplace; small Oriental throw rugs, multicolored, placed together at different angles, so that just the right amount of oak floor bordered them. The walls were cherrywood, and featured framed sepias of the family and their ancestors.

Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.

Materialism allows for a greater vision!

Luxury life is good if everyman living on earth can benefit from it! Otherwise, it is injustice!

Frankly, I was born with a silver spoon.

I come from a very affluent family. I have been educated in one of the finest institutions of the world. Money was never a factor in my life: by the grace of God, I was blessed with a golden spoon.

I have always been drawn to the Restoration period of Charles II. I have a soft spot for Charles Stuart, who was always loving and kind to the opposite sex. The members of his court were fascinating, and Barbara Castlemaine was one of the greatest courtesans in history.

I don't live like liberals in a 5,000 square foot mansion.

We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big.

Yes, we have taken a place in Juhu and it has been a costly affair since it's about 25,000 square feet in size.

What's problematic about playing stadiums and driving around in private jets and drinking champagne at 8 o'clock in the morning? What's wrong with that? I haven't got a problem with that. I can't fathom why people would.

I belong to those for whom the superfluous is necessary.

Queen Mary, too, remained faithful to the pre-First World War opulence approved of by her husband. Whatever else might change, one could always be sure of Queen Mary's toques, ankle-length skirts, lace parasols and long, pointed shoes.

Luxury has been a bit of a rollercoaster for me. I would define it as something that isn't needed but improves your life.

Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive.

If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.

That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates.

During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois.

The most influential of the Framers, James Madison, captured the dominant theme when he instructed the Convention that the government must "protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.

Coffee, Chocolate, Men . . . Some things are just better rich.

A festive din now rose and echoed through the palace halls. Lighted lamps hung from the coffered ceiling rich with gold leaf, and torches with high flames prevailed over the night.

my family despised Faberge objects as emblems of grotesque garishness.

The rich, like well brought up children, are meant to be seen, not heard.

Dr. Wintermute beheld Mrs. Pinchbeck befeathered, beribboned, crinolined, corseted, frizzled, and festooned, though not wasted.