Lavish Living Quotes

For my part, the thing I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern man desires to get with it is more money, with a view to ostentation, splendour, and the outshining of those who have hitherto been his equals.

Having been on a private jet only two or three times, it's one of life's great luxuries.

I think much of the media is decadent in the sense that the people who are producing the coverage, they themselves live very comfortable lives.

I've been really inspired by Paris Hilton, small dogs, and a glitter, luxe lifestyle.

These people who build houses with 13 bathrooms and so on, there's something wrong with them.

When you've tasted excess, everything else tastes bland.

I wasn't big in the party scene but I did have an excessive lifestyle. I had much more than I needed. I think that was a manifestation of a certain kind of mental illness.

If I were really rich, I would be flying places, I think.

Real big pretty titty, shut down every city. If you want the kit kitty, gotta get the key from me, all new everything, plus pay the rent for me. If we in the woods then these niggas pitch a tent for me.

Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when it engrosses all a man's expense, and leaves no ability for such acts of duty and generosity as are required by his situation and fortune. The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas would give bread to a whole family during six months.

Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.

When you're famous and you're young then you go partying, and you go to all the parties and stuff, I wasn't into that.

I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.

Life in Beverly Hills is a game, and I make the rules.

Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.

A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities.

I was a latchkey kid, so when I saw the 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,' that showed me that there was a different type of lifestyle out there. I was curious about it and amazed about it.

The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.

When I first started in the business, I spent so much! Staying in a Trump Hotel for two years, spending eight Gs a month just living.

Luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you and prevents you from knowing the world.

Live like the Kennedy's, above the law.

Maybe people [in Hollywood] wear really nice clothes, and they drive really nice cars, but that doesn't make me comfortable. And if I'm not comfortable, it won't be a part of my life.

There will always be ladies who lunch. Always. And apparently they live a long time.

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

The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.