Quotes About Opulence

People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.

It's the richest hotel in town. And they all keep their jewels in the big vault room behind the cashier's desk.

a blue dyed Balenciaga mink and almost exactly $2,500,000 worth of diamonds—including a thirty-odd carat diamond in each ear and a 34.8 carat blue diamond ring (putting it just below the famed Hope diamond, which is 44.5 carats, and the 35.5-carat Wittebacher, which is on sale for $650,000. Contact J. Komkommer in Antwerp). …Childless, she spends 5 or 6 months a year in the U.S. (she has a 7½ room apartment in Manhattan's Hotel Pierre)…

If you're blue and you don't know, Where to go to, why don't you go, Where fashion sits? Putting On The Ritz.

The meal will consist of macaroni di zitu, red mullet, hare in a sour sauce, boar with chocolate, turkey stuffed with ricotta, fish cooked in wine, roast suckling pig, sweet rice, conserve of scorzonera, ice-cream, sweetmeats, almond biscuits, water ices and wines from Casa Ucrìa with the strong pungent flavour of the grapes from Torre Scannatura.

An abundance of gold leaf and rich colours enhance the jewel-like appearance of the altarpiece.

Luxury is a motivational narcotic.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.

Occasionally, Charles and Maude would host a dinner party where they would come together as Husband and Wife, and on such occasions I would be brought down and passed around from couple to couple like a Fabergé egg they'd purchased from a descendant of the last Russian Tsar.

He had several rings, a gold identification bracelet, and a gold bracelet watch, and he carried a heavy gold cigarette case, set with jewels. The case was empty, and Evarts furnished him with cigarettes as they talked.

Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.

Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.

California, the department store state.

I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls With vassals and serfs at my side.

In Harrods you get some exceptional services.

Drag culture has always been about excess.

There is a certain sort of excess that is interesting, don't you think? And America is, of course, the most excessive place.

My films are larger than life.

Last year my wife got a Rolls-Royce.

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.

I've made more money than I could spend in five lifetimes.

Every time I go to a spa, I think that's the most luxurious experience ever.