Quotes About Opulence

It pleases me to wear silk couture and pearls. I like the way it feels on my skin, the way it fits.

riches is not wealth but wealth is riches.

Greed is good! Greed is right! Greed works! Greed will save the U.S.A.!

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up

The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

In 1895 Lady Londonberry commented acidly on a bridegroom who had 'married the 10,000 a year as well as the lady.

Champagne, always champagne. Make mine Veuve-Clicquot.

She was built along the lines of a General Electric refrigerator and looked like a cross between Caligula and a cockatoo. Mother Burnside had beady little eyes, an imperious beak of a nose, sallow skin, and bad breath. She wore a stiff black wig and a stiff black dress and she sat all day long in a darkened drawing room, her pudgy hands - encrusted with dirty diamond rings - folded over her pudgy belly.

I walked across the polished marble floor and sat on a red velvet lounging couch. I idly wondered how exactly one was supposed to lounge. I couldn't remember ever doing it myself. After a moment's consideration, I decided lounging was probably similar to relaxing, but with more money in your pocket.

lounging was probably similar to relaxing, but with more money in your pocket.

I decided lounging was probably similar to relaxing, but with more money in your pocket.

Nothin' plugs a man's ears like money.

Oh my God. I love rich people. And royalty are the best because they're rich people who can't be fires.

One manor house remained unoccupied and unsold. It sat on a small rise, a menacing, ugly house, a barrow, deposited and deserted by some 1920's millionaire and left there to testify to the power of money to create a permanent and quarrelsome unloveliness.

The very rich only admire themselves.

Being rich, really rich, meant you could go completely crazy, and the only result would be everyone getting so jealous they couldn't stand it.

Gold we've got, humping we want – debauch! debauch!

Have you ever been rich, Detective?" "That's Hoshe, and no, I've never been rich." "They really don't live by the same rules as anyone else. Whatever they want to do, they just do it. I

All King Solomonís drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.

All King Solomonís drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.

Beverages were served in an array of goblets of gold, each with a different design, and the royal wine flowed freely, according to the kingís bounty.

By order of the king, no limit was placed on the drinking, and every official of his household was to serve each man whatever he desired.

cargo of gold, silver, precious stones, and pearls; of fine linen, purple, silk, and scarlet; of all kinds of citron wood and every article of ivory, precious wood, bronze, iron, and marble;