Quotes about Opulence
So you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was made of fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour, honey, and oil. You became very beautiful and rose to be queen.
- Ezekiel 16:13
You sat on a couch of luxury with a table spread before it, on which you had set My incense and My oil,
- Ezekiel 23:41
You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.
- Amos 6:4
Tyre has built herself a fortress; she has heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets.
- Zechariah 9:3
Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.
- Luke 16:19
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;
- Revelation 18:12
The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.
- Victor Hugo
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
- Coco Chanel
Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
- Frederick Douglass
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich
- Oscar Wilde
I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
- George Bernard Shaw