Quotes About Opulence

horse-drawn litter covered with velvet and fringed with gold and silk, as well as a coach

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?

Une cage dorée restera toujours une cage

Una jaula de oro no deja de ser jaula.

Beulah, peel me a grape.

Too much of a good thing is wonderful.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

The gown rustles and slides around her, speaking a glossolalia all of its own, the silk moving against the rougher nap of the underskirts, the bone supports of the bodice straining and squealing against their coverings, the cuffs scuffing and chafing the skin of her wrists, the stiffened collar hooking and nibbling at her nape, the hip supports creaking like the rigging of a ship. It is a symphony, an orchestra of fabrics, and Lucrezia would like to cover her ears, but she cannot.

he was also abundantly rich:

The hefty figure of M. de Guermantes was seated beside her, proud and Olympian. One got the impression that the notion of his vast riches was omnipresent in all his limbs, giving him an extraordinary density, as though they had been smelted in a crucible into a single human ingot to create this man who was worth so much.

Tom Ford Fucking Fabulous

The gilded chairs covered with their worn tapestry were set about stiffly like too many servants with nothing to do.

The boys were stunned by the size and grandeur of the West End after their background in a one-room country school. The opulence of having a teacher for each grade made a deep impression on them. It seemed wasteful. But as is true of all humans, they were stunned for one day, admiring on the second, and on the third day could not remember very clearly ever having gone to any other school.

The Cadillac Escalade is the perfect vehicle for a pimp with a growing family.

The fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness.

Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects treachery?

Men, chocolate, and coffee are all better rich.

I saw her thus, solid, flushed, opulent and captive, returning home quite naturally with myself, as a woman who was my own property, and, protected by its walls, disappearing into our house. Unfortunately, she seemed to feel herself a prisoner there, and to share the opinion of that Mme. de La Rochefoucauld who, when somebody asked her whether she was not glad to live in so beautiful a home as Liancourt, replied: "There is no such thing as a beautiful prison

Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.

The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

If someone else is paying for it, food just tastes a lot better.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.