List Of Opulence Quotes

If Poverty Makes Man Groan, He Yawns In Opulence. When Fortune Exempts Us From Labor, Nature Overwhelms Us With Time.

It Is A Thing Which Every Sensible American Should Learn From Every Sensible Englishman, That Glare And Glitter, Gimcracks And Gewgaws, Are Not Indispensable To Domestic Solacement.

With The Greater Part Of Rich People, The Chief Enjoyment Of Riches Consists In The Parade Of Riches, Which In Their Eye Is Never So Complete As When They Appear To Possess Those Decisive Marks Of Opulence Which Nobody Can Possess But Themselves.

Defense Is Superior To Opulence.

Only Economists Mistake Physical Opulence For Riches.

In A Community Where Public Services Have Failed To Keep Abreast Of Private Consumption Things Are Very Different. Here, In An Atmosphere Of Private Opulence And Public Squalor, The Private Goods Have Full Sway.

The Opulence Of Wilde Is A Bit Too Florid For Sherlock, Who Is A Much Darker Character, ... Fascinated By The Human Condition, But Also Overwhelmed By It.

Protection Is The First Necessity Of Opulence And Luxury.

To All My Friends Without Distinction I Am Ready To Display My Opulence: Come One, Come All; And Whosoever Likes To Take A Share Is Welcome To The Wealth That Lies Within My Soul.

The Extremes Of Opulence And Of Want Are More Remarkable, And More Constantly Obvious, In [great Britain] Than In Any Other Place That I Ever Saw.