Britain Quote by John Quincy Adams

Defense is superior to opulence.

— Adam Smith

"If you die, you get to heaven; and if you win, you enjoy the earth" (Gita). Even if you die in this attempt, well…

— Swami Vivekananda

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye is never…

— Adam Smith

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, and paradise is when you have none.

— Doug Larson

But while so many white Americans are unaware of conditions inside the ghetto, there are very few ghetto dwellers who are unaware of the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

If Julian had flattered himself that his personal connexion with the capital of the East would be productive of mutual satisfaction to the prince…

— Edward Gibbon

Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to nimbleness,to grace,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with…

— Samuel Johnson

“I don't want to be around people who accept me as is, in my unrefined state of becoming. I consistently want people around me…

— Brandi L. Bates

“A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

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

It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are not indispensable…

— Herman Melville

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

— Ogwo David Emenike

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

— Pierre Loti

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

— Naeem Khan