Quotes About Opulence

Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.

like a shark cruising a swimming pool thick with caviar.

That's how you know you're The Money—when you build so many rooms it's impossible to fill them, no matter how much you procreate

She had a new bracelet on, stacked with emeralds brighter than her eyes. I hate rich people.

Paul and Olga enjoyed a gilded exile with their two daughters, in a home created together that was "worthy of a Pompadour or a Du Barry.

Where the makers of modern dictionaries strive for uniformity, Johnson was quite happy to vary the size of his entries. Although some of his definitions of natural phenomena are lean, many are lengthy, even opulent, reflecting the contemporary love affair with unusual flora and fauna. Here more than anywhere he strays towards an encyclopedic approach, and the Dictionary begins to resemble, at least fleetingly, a herbal and a bestiary.

His bedroom was the gilded, diamond-studded, pearl-encrusted rococo lair of a god-king.

She was born with a silver flask in her mouth.

Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it.

The vaults of Buckingham palace are groaning with priceless, useless freebies from foreign dignitaries.

So-called designer bags are useless, and most are also ugly, faddish and overpriced. Pared down and sleek is always best.

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.

It does not have walls splattered with gold leaf like King Midas has had a nosebleed.

Amid the luxurious freshness of Ipanema each building has its own secret police.

Everything is too much, I felt as I rode wearily after her. Too much blue, too much purple, too much green. The flowers too red, the mountains too high, the hills too near.

Never in a monarchy can the opulence of an individual put him above the prince; but, in a republic, it can easily put him above the laws. Then the government no longer has force, and the rich are always the true sovereign.

With regard to equality, this word must not be understood to mean that degress of power and wealth should be exactly the same, but rather that with regard to power, it should be incapable of all violence and never exerted except by virtue of status and the laws; and with regard to wealth, no citizen should be so opulent that he can buy another, and none so poor that he is constrained to sell himself.

Big dress, cocktails, party - I love that. It is my work, but my work allow me to have glamour, to wear beautiful and amazing dresses, to go to big ceremonies.

Davos is an extravagant bun-fight of the vanities, where the 'haves' gather to strike deals with the 'have-mores.'

The difference between Oprah Winfrey and me is about $200 million.

Opulence doesn't cost more than boring.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

There's something that's delightful about things getting bigger and more over-the-top. Sometimes it's empty, and other times, it's just fun.

I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent.