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.
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.
If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.
Defense is superior to opulence.
Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches.
In the opulence of its set, its cast was remarkably adept and it was richly endowed with character actors able, indeed anxious, to play cameo roles.
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.
We are suggesting a new kind of opulence, of intelligent indulgence over blind gluttony.
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.
Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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.
Out of all the opulences of a living entity its humility which pleases Krishna. Other opulences can also please Krishna if offered with humility.
What very often happens when people make films about rich people, the camera is quite mesmerised by the opulence and quite theatrical in fact.
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.