Quotes About Opulence

My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.

That's the state to live and die in!… R-r-rich!

The exquisite gentlemen of the finest breeding wore little pendent trinkets that chinked as they languidly moved; these golden fetters rang like precious little bells; and what with that ringing, and with the rustle of silk and brocade and fine linen, there was a flutter in the air that fanned Saint Antoine and his devouring hunger far away.

king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes,

And who among the company at Monseigneur's reception in that seventeen hundred and eightieth year of our Lord, could possibly doubt, that a system rooted in a frizzled hangman, powdered, gold-laced, pumped, and white-silk stockinged, would see the very stars out!

V. The Jackal VI. Hundreds of People VII. Monseigneur in Town VIII. Monseigneur in

The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.

I have a collar of pearls... On the ivory breast of a queen they have rested... I have topazes, yellow as are the eyes of tigers, and topazes that are pink as the eyes of a wood-pigeon, and green topazes that are as the eyes of cats. I have opals that burn always, with a flame that is cold as ice, opals that make sad men's minds, and are afraid of the shadows.

Opal is the multi-gem.

Overnight our place was busting its seams with idiotics. Anything went, and every fool thing you might think of under the influence of hashish or a hangover went big. We were awash with pretty women, clowns, and storytellers who couldn't write. We made a million dollars so fast my fingers ached from trying to count.

Driving a brand new car feels like riding around in an open billfold with the dollars flapping by your ears as they fly out the window.

Oscar sat back and looked at me appraisingly. "I need to think. And to think I must have oysters and champagne.

It was the first time I had had the opportunity of drinking champagne by the pint and it was a rewarding experience. I

The warmly cool, clear, ringing perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up — flaked up, with rose-water snow.

In the world of the very rich, obtuseness may not quite rise to the level of a virtue, but it's often the norm.

Miss Moneybags.

foie gras and caviar tureens. About

754 Fifth Avenue

for the wealthy.

and a huge diamond

I like the theater, dining and chasing women. Let me put it this way: I am a single, straight billionaire in Manhattan. It's like a wet dream.

If these rich women from 5th Avenue spend a fortune on cashmere sweaters, they will come to my store to buy gummy bears.

I enjoy how women dressed in the 1920s with the shimmering jewels and rich feathers.

Stardom can be a gilded slavery.