Opulent Quotes (8 quotes)

“Recognizing a problem may help us to understand and solve a problem. Rather than lying down and selling our sound judgment short, let us appeal to the opulent granary of our memory and explore the green pastures lingering in our mind. ("Prêt-à-penser")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: appeal-to, explore, granary, green-pastures, lingering, lying-down, memory, mind, opulent, problem, prêt-à-penser, recognize, sell-short, solve-a-problem, sound-judgment, understand

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“Furnishing was not a priority in the Citadel. Shelves, stools, tables... There was a rumor among the novices that priests towards the top of the hierarchy had golden furniture, but there was no sign of it here. The room was as severe as anything in the novices' quarters although it had, perhaps, a more opulent severity; it wasn't the forced bareness of poverty, but the starkness of intent.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

tags: baren, furniture, humor, opulent, poverty, stark

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“Many a rich man’s bed is bigger than many a poor woman’s bedroom; his bedroom, her house.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: affirmative-action, affluence, affluent, bed, bedroom, beggary, broke, capital, cash, cleaned-out, destitute, destitution, dough, equality, filthy-rich, finance-assets, flat-broke, flush, fortune-money, funds, hard-up, hardship, holdings, house, impecunious, impecuniousness, impoverished, impoverishment, in-debt, in-the-money, indigence, indigent, inequality, insolvent, kitchen, loaded, low-income, lucre, made-of-money, means, moneyed, moneyless, moola, moolah, necessitous, need, neediness, needy, opulent, pauperdom, pauperism, pauperized, penniless, pennilessness, penury, poor, possessions, poverty, poverty-stricken, property, prosperity, prosperous, reserves, resources, riches, rolling-in-it, rolling-in-money, rolling-in-the-dough, securities, silk-stocking, size-counts, size-does-not-count, size-doesn-t-count, stinking-rich, stock, strapped-formal-penurious, substance, treasure, unable-to-make-ends-meet, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do, wherewithal, without-a-cent-to-one-s-name, without-a-sou

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“So when you come to me

in your opulent sadness, I see
you do not want me

to unbutton you
so I cannot do the one thing

I can do.”
― Mary Szybist, Incarnadine: Poems

tags: incarnadine, mary-szybist, opulent, poetry, sadness

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“Rich people? If only they had a coin for every coin they have!”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

tags: aphorism, coin, greed, neverending-story, opulent, rich-people

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“...opulent patterns intricately stitched on skirts of gold and silver, each as beautiful as the dawn.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

tags: beautiful, dawn, dresses, holly-black, jude-duarte, opulent, patterns, skirts, the-cruel-prince, the-folk-of-the-air

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“Inside, it was even more opulent. Black-and-white checkered marble shone at my feet, flowing to countless doors and a sweeping staircase. A long hall stretched ahead to the giant glass doors at the other end of the house, and through them I glimpsed a second garden, grander than the one out front. No sign of a dungeon- no shouts or pleas rising up from hidden chambers below. No, just the low growl from a nearby room, so deep that it rattled the vases overflowing with fat clusters of hydrangeas atop the scattered hall tables.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

tags: a-court-of-thorns-and-roses, feyre, feyre-archeron, garden, hall, hallway, hydrangeas, opulent, sarah-j-maas, staircase

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“History existed to be retold, with more panache but not necessarily greater accuracy. In the ancient texts the villains always wear a particularly vulgar purple, eat too much roasted peacock, douse themselves in rare unguents, melt down pearls. Whether you were a transgressive, power-hungry Egyptian queen or a ruthless pirate, you were known for the "odious extravagance" of your accessories. Iniquity and opulence went hand in hand; your world blazed purple and gold. Nor did it help that history bled into mythology, the human into the divine.”
― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life

tags: extravagance, history, legend, opulent, powerful

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