William Allen Butler Quotes

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

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

Success is a sort of metaphysical experience. I live exactly as I did before - only on a slightly bigger scale. Naturally, I won't be corrupted. I'll sit there in my Rolls, uncorrupted, and tell my chauffeur, uncorruptedly, where to go.

When you've got the money, you spend it. When you've spent it all, let someone else get going and spend theirs.

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree.

I've never been impressed by somebody who came in with a crocodile bag, you know?

Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

I didn't buy the Porsche for status. I hate that, and it's actually kind of goofy now because in L.A., a Porsche is like a Honda. It was just that I could pay that much money for a car and drive it off the lot.

First, one scrambles for wealth. Then, one luxuriates in mocking the effeteness that comes with it.

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.

Some people are so poor, all they have is their money.

People don't want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.

If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.

For me, life is not about gold taps and marble all over the place.

I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.

Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene, the practicalities are in trouble, as women who wear expensive stiletto heels can testify.

You know when you first get rich, and you, like, just buy everything that you see? I did that for several years. And I have sheds full of things, maybe sometimes nine copies of the same thing.

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.

The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.

Bling is good.

My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself.

Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.