Affluence Gifts

"I was a late bloomer—I didn't inherit my money until my fifties."

"I do have an embarrassment of riches. Oddly, however, I'm not at all embarrassed by it."

"I wish I had her jewelry." "I wish I had his wife." "I wish I had her figure." "I wish I had his money."

Hamish Harris. The boy bon vivant.

A Macaroni in 1772

"Wow! I knew you were rich, but I didn't know you were that rich!"

"It may well be the root of all evil, but it's also the root of all this."

'Money isn't everything...but it should be.'

The Mortons: It's all about our money.

'You're talking three million, ballpark

"He's very well off. He's got all the quantities I admire."

The Great Catsby.

"Let's face it, Tom. A society that's paying its Frank Sinatras and Johnny Carsons more than its yous and mes is out of whack."

"Now do you see, Betty, what a little luck, a few sound investments and the shameless inflation of corporate profits through bogus transactions can buy."

'I looked into their eyes before I shot them, with my high-powered rifle, from half a mile away.'

'I know it's my third doughnut, but it's okay. I'm using the Pilates method of dunking.'

Our Yuppie Dad

"My third and final wish is for money and wealth—again!"

People putting their grocery shopping into shopping carts that are cornucopias.

View Down Ladies' Mile

Prince.

'I thought I heard you rattling around.'

The rivalry between the Hamptons and Cape Code spills over.

'Now that's big money!'

Realty Porn

Puck Building Shoot-out

"As mountains go, this one is fairly yuppie."

"With the Coffin 3000, you can take it with you."

"We love what you've done with your money."

Do you think it's true that money talks? Whenever mine does, somebody else's interrupts it.

"The Number Three isn't usually quite this civilized."

"But then I think about how rich you are, and then everything's all right again."

'House arrest? Should I use the one in France, Bermuda, or Spain?'

"Being in possession of great wealth made me a bit self-conscious at first, but I finally came to terms with it."

'I have the stigma these days attached to being openly wealthy.'