Salman Rushdie Quotes

But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less, And jewelry worth ten times more, I should guess, That she had not a thing in the wide world to wear!

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

A rich man can afford to be generous to many.

I have reached a state in life where I can buy a whole house full of chairs and can bump into them until they are black and blue.

You know what we say in the Hamptons: If you have to come out on a Friday afternoon or go back on a Sunday night, you're not rich enough to have a house there. So, you have to be able to come and go when you feel like it in the Hamptons.

I try to wear $1 million a day. At least.

Frugality is for the vulgar.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.

I don't have a chateau in France. There's no private airplane or yacht.

I don't want to buy a jet plane. I don't want to live with an entourage.

I still have my feet on the ground; it's just that I wear expensive shoes.

I'm pretty certain that I'm the only son of a billionaire who can drive a D10 Caterpillar better than I can drive a golf cart.

Living in London and having a lavish lifestyle, it's not that important to me.

I am always a little skeptical when I see people talking about how much money they have.

Tom has a gilded life which I have had a glimpse of. Yes, he does travel in private jets.

If I ever make a lot of money in the NBA, I'm going to have this massive tank, and it's going to have an alligator in it.

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

I've got a fleet of cars and I've never had a driving license, ever.

Am I in the Forbes 100? Absolutely not, and I'll never be there. But for the first time I make so much money that I feel poor, like I have to cultivate and protect this fortune. But I never had more than $20 in my pocket before RuPaul's Drag Race so I feel so privileged with money, it's terrible. I bought a $300 beige t-shirt today.

It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures.

It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.