Quotes about Opulence

While the Venezuelan people starve, the Chavistas post photographs on Facebook of their European vacations, their lavish parties, their designer outfits, the bouquets of fresh flowers that adorn their homes.

Oh, in Hong Kong the millionaires had scouts all through the country. All over China. It was just like the Brooklyn Dodgers' baseball team looking for ballplayers. As soon as a beautiful girl was located in any town or village their agents bought her and she was shipped in and trained and groomed and cared for.

It is the most opulent, most gorgeous land on earth—a land whose wisest are but little wiser than its dullest; a land where the rulers have minds like little children and the law-givers believe in Santa Claus; where ugly women control strong men——

Stress the thought of plenty. Thoughts of plenty help create plenty.

I am prosperous. I am coming into overflow.

Chocolate, men, coffee — some things are better rich.

The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.

A feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees.

To bring back riches from the East you must bring riches with you.

He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

Then the house had been boldly planned with a ball-room, so that, instead of squeezing through a narrow passage to get to it (as at the Chiverses') one marched solemnly down a vista of enfiladed drawing-rooms (the sea-green, the crimson and the bouton d'or), seeing from afar the many-candled lustres reflected in the polished parquetry, and beyond that the depths of a conservatory where camellias and tree-ferns arched their costly foliage over seats of black and gold bamboo.