Quotes About Affluence

Maybe luxury is the easiest matrix to pass through. Maybe nothing is easier to get used to than money.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

I'm not even the one per cent; I'm the one per cent of the one per cent;

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

Hawaii is a paradise--and I can never cease proclaiming it; but I must append one word of qualification: Hawaii is a paradise for the well-to-do.

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you to miserable in comfort.

I don't have to work. I could buy your fucking penthouse twice over myself with my trust fund.

There were the youngest children, small girls with leis, barefoot. There were watercress sandwiches, champagne, lemonade, peach-colored napkins to match the sorbet that came with the cake, peacocks on the lawn. She kicked off the expensive shoes and unpinned the veil. 'Wasn't that just about perfect,' she said when she called that evening.

It is proven that Cool Guys are Rich.

The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market.

The embarrassment of riches.

Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the luxury of a computer in your own home.

Today, one must either be isolated and cut off, or a carefully guarded, affluent drop-out, to allow one's children to play in an environment where they listen to people rather than to stars, speakers, or instructors. All over the world, one can see the rapid encroachment of the disciplined acquiescence that characterizes the audience, the client, the customer.

Any man who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one.

I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.

Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.

Study after study has shown that the availability of stable employment, reduced income inequality and post-imprisonment neighbourhood affluence are three of the most significant factors in reducing the frequency of violent offences.

Peace is for people with a bank account.

All that society can achieve in these fields is to provide an environment which does not put insurmountable obstacles in the way of genius's and makes the common man free enough from material concerns to become interested in things other than mere breadwinning... the foremost social means of making a man more human is to fight poverty. Wisdom and science and the arts the way of genius and makes the common man free enough thrive better in a world of affluence than among needy peoples.

However, in talking about equality and asking vehemently for its realization, nobody advocates a curtailment of his own present income. The term equality as employed in contemporary political language always means upward leveling of one's income, never downward leveling. It means getting more, not sharing one's own affluence with people who have less.