Noel Gallagher Quotes

I would take one of 15 half-million-dollar cars I owned and go to the mall and spend that much money. Stupid, stupid stuff. It's like it didn't make a difference. They were ego investments. I would have been great with three or four cars. I didn't need a 117-foot boat.

I always say to my people, 'If you don't sell a Ferrari to a football player, you make a big present to me.' Really. Because they buy to just show off. I don't like.

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

I have more than 100 pairs of Jimmy Choos and I feel very guilty about it.

People who have car collections - I never understood that. I always thought that was unnecessary. It's not beautiful, it's not creative. It's just showing how much money you've got.

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

I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.

A big diamond necklace is nouveau riche, really. People who have wealth a long time don't wear such things.

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

People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

I've been offered private planes, and I'm like, 'No!'

Anybody who probably lives alone and they have three or four cars, that's probably somebody that's spending a lot of money that they don't need to.

I spent money on all the wrong things. Private airfare. Things like that.

Luxury and Ostentation usually make me feel antsy, like I'm going to get a case of gout.

I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.

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

Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.

One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.

Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.

We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.

I'm sure the way to be happy is to live well beyond your means!

There is much money given to be laughed at, though the purchasers don't know it; witness A.'s fine horse, and B.'s fine house.

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.