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.
Quotes about opulence (10 Quotes)
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.
Fall is even more luxurious than ever before, ... It's really more and more opulence, more and more fabulous fabrics, fabulous mixing, and it's all very discrete at the same time.
Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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.
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.
The poulterers' shops were still half open, and the fruiterers' were radiant in their glory. There were great, round, pot-bellied baskets of chestnuts, shaped like the waistcoats of jolly old gentlemen, lolling at the doors, and tumbling out into the street in their apoplectic opulence. There were ruddy, brown-faced, broad-girthed Spanish Onions, shining in the fatness of their growth like Spanish Friars, and winking from their shelves in wanton slyness at the girls as they went by, and glanced demurely at the hung-up mistletoe. There were pears and apples, clustered high in blooming pyramids there were bunches of grapes, made, in the shopkeepers' benevolence to dangle from conspicuous hooks, that people's mouths might water gratis as they passed there were piles of filberts, mossy and brown, recalling, in their fragrance, ancient walks among the woods, and pleasant shufflings ankle deep through withered leaves there were Norfolk Biffins, squab and swarthy, setting off the yellow of the oranges and lemons, and, in the great compactness of their juicy persons, urgently entreating and beseeching to be carried home in paper bags and eaten after dinner.
By preparing a garland for a Deity with one's own hand by grinding sandal paste for the Lord with one's own hand and by writing sacred texts with one's own hand -- one becomes blessed with opulence equal to that of Indra.
I would say the most important phrase, if I could put it into a phrase, would be luxury and opulence distilled in a way to their purest line.
Defense is superior to opulence.