Quotes About Opulence

A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, But Diamonds are a girl's best friend.

Marie Antoinette is said to have dismissed the plight of the poor by declaring, "Let them eat cake." But there's no evidence the queen ever said it, and plenty of evidence that Jean-Jacques Rousseau did. His autobiographical book, "Confessions," included the phrase about 1767, before Marie Antoinette even got to France. The quote in the original French refers to brioche, which is not really a cake and is better described as an enriched bread roll.

Chocolate cake and a diamond ring? In bed with the man of my dreams?

Women's hands, heavy with diamonds, stirred coffee in tiny cups or alighted playfully on a neighboring sleeve. Young men's hands, with costly cuff links and the slimmest of watches, waved languorously at wine buckets and

But while so many white Americans are unaware of conditions inside the ghetto, there are very few ghetto dwellers who are unaware of the life outside. The television sets bombard them day by day with the opulence of the larger society.

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

Une nouvelle fois, c'est l'accueil d'un hôtel sept étoiles dans les locaux d'un Formule 1.

Catolicismul, am aflat, era o forma de crestinism pentru umanii carora le placeau poleiala cu foita de aur, limba latina si sentimentul de vina.

The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.

the money that was scattered around me like an uninteresting garnish.

The same way most people get away with the wrong thing," she said. "Wealth. . .

I am too rich already, for my eyes mint gold. - Coloured Money

If the only advantage of affluence were the ability to buy yachts, sports cars, and fancy vacations, inequalities

It served as a symbol of the opulence and prosperity of Detroit until the summer of 1967, when the 12th Street Riot kicked off the white flight to the suburbs and the city took its first steps toward ruination. The

But what I do love about this road is how the gaudy becomes grand, how tastelessness is a way of everyday life

literature has always carried positive connotations in the world of luxury goods.

our countrymen are starving, she is decorating herself with diamond aigrettes!

Despite all her efforts to not be one of those historical romance heroines, walking into the marble foyer and seeing the slick hardwood floors beyond, the glittering chandeliers and sconces, she felt like one. She felt small and alone. And like maybe her dad lost her in a poker game.

Money sharpens predatory reflexes like a blade.

Palace life is full of flowers outside before the common eyes, but bloodshed inside before the senses of kings and princes.

As an example of wealth, good taste, and subtle intimidation, it took first prize.

be spared. There would be an extravagant smorgasbord

missed that place. Lavish, finely decorated

Every belt buckle must be gold, every drape silver, every veil like gossamer.