Quotes About Lavishness

It was borrowed time anyway—the whole upper tenth of a nation living with the insouciance of a grand duc and the casualness of chorus girls.

I must have gone through $10 million during my career. Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly.

You can never have too much butter.

For one thing, the penthouse was simply too big. Besides the seventy-one bedrooms, there were a number of living rooms, dining rooms, breakfast rooms, snack rooms, sitting rooms, standing rooms, ballrooms, bathrooms, kitchens, and an assortment of rooms that seem to have no purpose at all.

Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!

Drag culture has always been about excess.

No stinting here, not on the after-breakfast champagne.

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