Extravagance Quotes

I am a poor man, but it takes a lot of money to keep me poor.

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.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

Back in the day, I would wear up to 45 pounds of gold. It would take me four hours to get dressed!

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness.

Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day.

I do dance music, and I can be pretty camp myself from time to time.

It isn’t easy, but I guess I can understand why the good citizens of the hill country might let themselves be represented in Washington by a man who drinks too much. It isn’t easy, but I guess I can even understand why the good citizens of the hill country might even let themselves be represented by a man in Washington who carouses with city women while his wife and children are back here working the land. But, as God is my witness, I will never understand why the good people of the hill country would let themselves be represented by a man who takes female sheep up into the hills alone at night!

Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.

If I'm going to spend money, I'd rather it be on a fabulous location or food, not gambling.

Luxury and style have been key elements in all my projects.

To those who say that our expenditures for Public Works and other means for recovery are a waste that we cannot afford, I answer that no country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.

Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.

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

Some things are worth the splurge.

I've never put a lot into being a celebrity, that just flies over my head because that's not really who I am. But as you can imagine, you get exposed to a lot of different things because of what you do and I lived a pretty excessive lifestyle.

The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance.

I don't want to be the dude that you just think about with a crazy suit, talking crap, fighting in these super fights and driving a Rolls-Royce.

Where, with your one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?

I don't lead a Hollywood lifestyle.

Well, here's my feeling about shtick. I think sometimes if you don't have it going on too much, you're probably feeling insecure and then you want to add on the shtick. I would say, oh, like Kiss. You try to stand out from the crowd, you're going for a bold statement, you're going for a high concept.

Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends

The crazy thing is I got all of these shoes, and probably 80 percent of them I've never worn before. I've worn all the glasses. I sleep in them, bend them up a little bit. Glasses are on all the time except when I'm at practice or at work.

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