Henryk Sienkiewicz Quotes

I have a nice house, nice cars, nice watches, nice things. I've got money in the bank. I'm not in need of a few quid - as it stands. It's all irrelevant to me.

Money? I lost all taste for it.

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.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

The more rarefied a life you live, the easier it is to think that those who don't share it could be demonised. To find the common humanity becomes more of a struggle the more you surround yourself with nice things.

We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.

I've had a lot of glamour come my way in the last 10 years - you know, movie stars and mansions and red carpets and trips to Europe and crazy stuff I never would have imagined - and I look at them as if I'm the bartender in the corner of the room. They've never gone into my psyche. I look at them with distance, and wonder.

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.

If you start to find that kind of luxury as a normal thing, you don't belong in the real world.

You can't lose a game in which you're not even competing.

The super-rich watch each other like envious owls, to see who's got a slightly better loafer, a pullover made from some even more absurdly endangered fur. They will go to any lengths to find the best tailors.

When you have more money than anyone, and you can buy the players that you want, OK, you can buy the quality, and maybe you no longer mind about the other things.

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

The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal.

You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain; unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men.

When you're not used to comfort and good things to eat, you're intoxicated by them in no time. Truth's only too pleased to leave you. Very little is ever needed for Truth to let go of you. And after all, you're not really very keen to keep hold of it.

Once you see that everything is unreal, you can't see why you should bother to prove it.

Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.

To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors.

If you have millions and millions of dollars, you're living in a totally different world. You don't feel it anymore and you've got to feel it.

If I paid $3 or $4 for a cigar, first I'd sleep with it.

I always say I hope to God I die in a town with a good tailor, a good shoemaker, and perhaps someone who's interested in a little quelque chose d'autre.

I don't mind losing. Losing is like breathing to me.