Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

There's nothing - I've bought everything I want. I don't like yachts or anything; you know, I'm not a yacht person, and I've got pretty much the nicest plane I'd want to have.

Luxury takes many forms nowadays, but one thing doesn't change: luxury is about desire and the ability to create dreams.

People say I'm a gold digger, but do you see me wearing gold? No. I'm wearing diamonds.

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.

The media is convincing people that if you have that 'next thing,' that diamond, the right car, then you'd be happier.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

We don't need fashion to survive, we just desire it so much.

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

The affluent society makes no meaningful distinction between luxury and necessity.

Wealth has never been a sufficient source of honour in itself. It must be advertised, and the normal medium is obtrusively expensive.

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

How many BMWs do you need? How many Rolex watches you gonna wear in your lifetime, for crying out loud? What is it about that kind of desire? I don't understand it.

Living in London and having a lavish lifestyle, it's not that important to me.

Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.

I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.

Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locus of affluence. Streets with overcrowded and glittering store windowsthe displays of delicacies, and all the scenes of alimentary and vestimentary festivity, stimulate a magical salivation. Accumulation is more than the sum of its products: the conspicuousness of surplus, the final and magical negation of scarcitymimic a new-found nature of prodigious fecundity.

In the rare cases where it occurs, a failure to increase one's visible consumption when the means for an increase are at hand is felt in popular apprehension to call for explanation, and unworthy motives of miserliness are imputed.

We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.

I don't really like money - I like the things you can buy with money.

Whoever heard a man of fortune in England talk of the necessaries of life? . . . Whether we can afford it or no, we must have superfluities.

I don't think I'm a good ol' boy. Honestly, the last thing I am is a redneck. I like silk sheets, fancy cars, beautiful women, good whiskey.

I had the notion that, OK, so now we have all of this wealth, we could buy not only one expensive car, we could buy all of them. As soon as you realize that you could buy all of them, then none of them are particularly interesting or satisfying.

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.

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