Quotes About Affluence

The luxury of time to write, and the confidence to do so, make it easier for the more affluent and when the most decorated novels all begin to resemble each other the tacitly accepted view of what a good novel must be (and must be about) shifts imperceptibly.

Pop art: only possible in an affluent society, where one can be free to enjoy ironic consumption.

Photography has become the quintessential art of affluent, wasteful, restless societies.

The man is a syndicated columnist. He's got to be rolling in dough.

Uber riders are the most affluent, influential people in their cities.

We're seeing a new 'Gilded Age,' where inheritance is a deciding factor in who becomes the wealthiest.

When you become famous, you start getting invites to parties where there are famous athletes and famous rock stars, politicians, people who have tremendous power and affluence. It's not in my DNA, but certainly I have been exposed to it.

Wealth is the sinews of affairs.

You've got to be rich to have a swing like that

Myron's car climbed up past the nouveau riche mansions, so expansive they appeared to have been taking some sort of growth hormone.

A yacht is not for me. I don't enjoy it.

My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.

I own a private yacht, private jet and a private lion.

My family wasn't terribly affluent and looked upon money very carefully as something that had to be saved, not spent. My father built the ducting that took air into the copper mines and made about 6 d a yard in the Thirties, which was good money back then.

We talk a lot about infrastructure in cities, and it's talking about highways and it's talking about trains, but I think more important to people who are low income is, how do I get from here to there? How do I become part of the affluence that's surrounding me?

I have been poor and I have been rich. Rich is better.

I think at its most mature, love is a very bourgeois state. There is something about luxuriating in the nest of love that people fall into naturally.

Any girl that's got a $500,000 table and $5 shoes, I'm in love with.

The richer the country, the more allergies its citizens get.

I mean to say that there was, in fact, something unhealthy in the life of well-to-do people. No end of superfluity. Superfluous furniture and superfluous rooms in the houses, superfluous refinement of feelings, superfluous expressions.

Whoever said money couldn't buy happiness hadn't had billions of it to throw around.

these two people who had everything money could buy but the one thing that could be given freely: love.

Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

Americans are more than aware of their affluence- they almost seem to despise it at times.