I absolutely believe that when one goes on vacation, it should be pure decadence. — Crystal Renn Copy Share Image
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence. — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
“Decadence begins when the budget to beautify a man's home exceeds the coin spent to ensure its defense.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Here, I thought, I had found the human race in its final stages of decadence perverse, insouciant, without ambition. And I could… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
A city built upon mud; A culture built upon profit; Free speech nipped in the bud, The minority always guilty. Why should… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
“Everyone in a decadent society, Lorrain urges, is guilty. Everyone loves masking murder and everyone takes masochistic pleasure in the risk of… — Jennifer Birkett Copy Share Image
Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
“For – as everyone knows – in libertinism bad taste is a potent force. ("A Woman's Vengeance")” — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The parliamentary principle of decision by majorities only appears during quite short periods of history, and those are always periods of decadence… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Our institutions, if they do not erode entirely, can survive periods of decadence brought on by our material success, eras when the… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
All of the spiritualities that are now clamoring for attention, from explicit Satanism to what we hear on Oprah, are concerned with… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Fascism was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to… — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
I definitely consider 'Poses' - the whole album in fact - to be kind of a miracle. Like the last breath of… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
“At issue for Peladan is the potency of the visual image: art's ability to construct images for viewing that can mobilize, concentrate… — Jennifer Birkett Copy Share Image
My brothers and sister and I were brought up in an atmosphere which I would describe as 'Puritan decadence'. Puritanism names the… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Let's acknowledge that America's increasing decadence is giving aid and comfort to the enemy. When we tolerate trash on television, permit pornography… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
“Decadent cooks go one step further and make sculptures of the food itself. If life is to be spent in pursuit of… — Medlar Lucan Copy Share Image
“Look, de Mazel, you've known him for years - hasn't he been known to sleep for forty hours in two days?' 'Forty… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
In a 'wheat and tares' world, how unusually blessed faithful members are to have the precious and constant gift of the Holy… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
It is the psychic depression of decadence which has come to this place and time. It is what happens to people who… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
“i mean talk about decadence," he declared, "how decadent can a society get? Look at it this way. This country's probably the… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Superficially, the figure in the smoking-room was that of a long, weedy young man - hairless as to his face; scalped with… — Bernard Capes Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Scamler,’ she said, ‘do you study French, ma'am?’ ‘I do, indeed,’ I said; ‘two hours a day.’ ‘Then, ma’am,’ she says,… — John Davidson Copy Share Image
Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“Oh, my dear, how too marvelous! I've longed all my life to eat a flamingo.” — Compton Mackenzie Copy Share Image
What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
As the scale of football finances increases, we see and hear of the decadence, irresponsibility and greed of the modern player. — Simon Jordan Copy Share Image
“I was performing my ritual of sipping tea, shooting flirtatious glances and planning murder” — Mingmei Yip Copy Share Image
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
