Quotes About Opulence

#1. The capitalist "head office" can allow itself the luxury of creating
and believing its own myths of opulence, but the poor countries on the
capitalist periphery know that myths cannot be eaten.

Eduardo Galeano

#2. It is thus that you may lead a charmed life and be forever protected from all harm; it is thus you may become a positive force whereby conditions of opulence and harmony may be attracted to you.

Charles F. Haanel

#3. If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes.

David Ricardo

#4. I am, I know I am, the use of God's limitless opulence and supply.

Malti Bhojwani

#5. To a common man, the opulence of the day makes no sense but to a philosopher, it is as clear as a night in the southern France.

Indiana Lang

#6. What luxury! What opulence! To look up at the sky!

Marty Rubin

#7. Happiness does not completely depend on comforts or opulence. Even a pauper can be happier than a prince.

Ogwo David Emenike

#8. In his heart of hearts, I am sure, he couldn't wait to say the Pledge of Allegiance. I asked him what did it - the opulence, the abundance, the sheer self-satisfaction of the rich? "Actually," he said, "it was the ham.

Andre Aciman

#9. 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.

Antisthenes

#10. The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.

Dan Jenkins

#11. 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.

John Quincy Adams

#12. Around the middle of last year I started listening to a lot of rap, like Nicki Minaj and Drake. They all sing about such opulence, stuff that just didn't relate to me-or anyone that I knew. I began thinking, 'How are we listening to this? It's completely irrelevant'.

Lorde

#13. Opulence is the law of the universe, an abundant supply for every need if nothing is put in the way of its coming.

Ralph Waldo Trine

#14. 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.

Rupert Everett

#15. Opulence and fame will shorten your life, ask for long life, and you'll enjoy the former in small quantities, for it is a substitute.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#16. Here, the name of the game was opulence. The floors were cherrywood, the tablecloths silk, and the guests sparkling with enough diamonds to send a Christmas tree into an epileptic seizure.

Ella Summers

#17. Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

Adam Smith

#18. 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.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#19. Defense is superior to opulence.

Adam Smith

#20. But while so many white Americans are unaware of conditions inside the ghetto, there are very few ghetto dwellers who are unaware of the life outside. The television sets bombard them day by day with the opulence of the larger society.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#21. The Affluent Society not only changed the way the country viewed itself, but gave new phrases to the language: Conventional wisdom, the bland leading the bland, private opulence and public squalor.

Amartya Sen

#22. "If you die, you get to heaven; and if you win, you enjoy the earth" (Gita). Even if you die in this attempt, well and good, many will take up the work, following your example. And if you succeed, you will live a life of great opulence.

Swami Vivekananda

#23. Unaimed opulence, in general, is a roundabout, undependable, and wasteful way of improving the living standards of the poor.

Amartya Sen

#24. Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state in which the privileges of opulence will cease, when he will be equal by nature, and may be more than equal by virtue.

Edmund Burke

#25. I am not a snob, because I know opulence doesn't stamp out ignorance and unhappiness.

Sarina Bowen

#26. I AM' the Governing Presence, governing in Perfect Divine Order, commanding Harmony, Happiness, and the Presence of God's Opulence in my mind, my

Wayne W. Dyer

#27. Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury

Joseph Conrad

#28. Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches.

Aldo Leopold

#29. Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.

Doug Larson

#30. Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their lives. Different houses, clothes, cars. Or thoughts, dreams. But for the poor there is nothing but compulsory grayness, the only form of expression available to poverty.

Henning Mankell

#31. The measure of success is not by opulence but by happiness

Debasish Mridha

#32. We are suggesting a new kind of opulence, of intelligent indulgence over blind gluttony.

Naeem Khan

#33. It is with the approach of winter that cats ... wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence.

Pierre Loti

#34. A little of this caviar finds its way to the fish restaurants around Istanbul's Taksim Square, but the bulk is sent on to the United Arab Emirates to be enjoyed by wealthy Westerners and Arabs in the preposterous hotels that have set new standards in unnecessary opulence.

Misha Glenny

#35. What very often happens when people make films about rich people, the camera is quite mesmerised by the opulence and quite theatrical in fact.

Tilda Swinton

#36. If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.

Antoine Rivarol

#37. Damen had half expected a gaudy parade costume, but Laurent had always defined himself against the opulence of the court. And he did not need gilt to be recognised under a parade standard, only the uncovered bright of his hair.

C.S. Pacat

#38. 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.

Herman Melville

#39. Every turning point in a person's life isn't reached by luck, they choose to be successful, they know what it takes to be there, they can do what is expected of them to do, they do not show trepidation about the requirements needed to be on top

Michael Bassey Johnson

#40. His ruby red rimmed moist eyes were two glasses of cranberry. He wore a cashmere sweater the color of Earl Grey tea ...

Brandi L. Bates

#41. Sometimes transitional periods in life leave you feeling like a great big jumble of loose, split ends.

Brandi L. Bates

#42. Out of all the opulences of a living entity its humility which pleases Krishna. Other opulences can also please Krishna if offered with humility.

Radhanath Swami