Cesare Beccaria Quotes

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

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.

The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.

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

If you look at us as a company, what's the one thing that's consistent? It has to be the biggest, the best, the greatest. My father, over the years, has bought some of the best mansions of the world. It's just something he loves.

I did not have a dog with a diamond collar. I was never flashy.

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

I like to be surrounded by splendid things.

I don't think estates are grim places.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

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

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

I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.

You get spoiled on 'Captain America,' where your trailer's two blocks long and it's got three bedrooms.

What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an image of their affluence.

When we think of India, most of us are in fact thinking of Rajasthan, that large splotch of dun-colored desert in the country's northwest which, from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, was ruled by a succession of maharajas whose sense of color, opulence, and splendor created the most enduring images of India in the West.

My friends are very rich. Elizabeth Taylor sends flowers the size of the bathtub. I'm not kidding.

I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent.

Fabulosity. It's a state of being.

My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public spaces with enormous amounts of display and marble and so on. They were havens off the street.

Luxury is a state of mind.

It was a brilliant affair; the water flowed like champagne.