Ruta Sepetys Quotes

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

The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

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

Her voice is full of money.

All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.

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

I've got so much money it's ridiculous.

I'm filthy rich!

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

I photograph wealth.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.

I saw such personal wealth there that were I to describe it, the people of Persia would never believe it. I could discover no end or limit to their wealth, and I never saw such ease and comfort anywhere

In the affluent society no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessaries.

When I was growing up, we were in a high income bracket, one of the highest. I was one of the first in high school to get a car. And I didn't have to wait for it to be a graduation present, either. We've probably got one of the nicest houses in Sacramento.

Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.

With much we surfeit; plenty makes us poor.

Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.

My glass is not only half-full, it holds five-hundred-dollar-a-bottle Dom Perignon champagne.

The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money.

You are affluent when you buy what you want, do what you wish and don't give a thought to what it costs.

After the first million, money isn't important.

Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.