Quotes About Materialism

Such huge money has been made in China - it can be hundreds of millions in a year - and there's a need to validate it by showing what they can buy and how much of it.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired.

She'd always been one of those girls who wanted what anyone else had, even if she didn't want it.

in these shitty plastic days ...

We are all overdressed in our little flashy frocks, our slasher heels, and we all eat small plates of food bites that are as decorative and unsubstantial as we are.

Well, rich people need stuff to buy, and socks are probably as good as anything.

Millions of dollars later, and neither of them were happy. Money is wasted on the rich. We

The house was like something from a catalog, and there were two BMWs in the driveway and these were not people who

soldiers on the battlefield of consumerism, armed with vinyl-covered checkbooks and quilted handbags.

How about diamonds are a girl's best friends? Nope. It should be switched around and pointed out, instead, that your best friends are diamonds.

Worldly friends are deceptive time-wasters, Life like a flash of lightning in the sky, And material things like bubbles on a stream; Do not cling to them, Jampal Drak.

That's the whole point of being rich," I explain patiently. "What good is it if nobody's jealous?

Dan shrugged. "Maybe when you're rich, shopping takes longer, since you get to buy more stuff.

Envy is the central fact of American life.

cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any monoprix store. it's built into all poor-quality goods.

And yet he was happier in his unused room simply because it was his, his possession. I thought with bitterness and envy, if one possesses a thing securely, one need never use it.

I thought with bitterness and envy: if one possesses a thing securely, one need never use it.

I drive through the streets and I care not a damn, The people they stare, and they ask who I am; And if I should chance to run over a cad, I can pay for the damage if ever so bad. So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! So pleasant it is to have money.

CYCLOPS: Emma… I knew you wouldn't turn your back on us. EMMA: Sweet as you are, I didn't come back for you Scott. I came for my handbag. Lucky for you, this is a Louis Vuitton.

16So don't be dismayed when the wicked grow rich and their homes become ever more splendid. 17For when they die, they take nothing with them. Their wealth will not follow them into the grave.

The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it. - Karla

I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.

They make a religion of being greedy.