Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions. — H. Rap Brown Copy Share Image
If me and my friends are feeling decadent, we go for afternoon tea. — Sophie McShera 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
“You will find very exquisite flowers sometime even on a dust-heap, as well as where humanity grows thickest and rankest.” — Hume Nisbet Copy Share Image
“Decadent, rich chocolate; thick, silken, sweet cream; and the coolest breath of satin stroked over quivering skin... He was near...” — Denyse Bridger Copy Share Image
Sultan Beyazid considered his father's art collection decadent and ordered it sold at auction. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
I don't see decadence really as what you do, because I don't do much at all that is decadent in my life.… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
“I think God hands over to His apprentices the moulding of vessels that don't interest Him. ("The Accursed Cordonnier")” — Bernard Capes Copy Share Image
I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite. — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
“She had a vague idea that “decadent” had something to do with not opening the curtains all day.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We use fashion for status and to beautify and there's nothing wrong with that, but when it becomes completely unbalanced, then you're… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
“We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world—bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully.… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“A long light robe, sulphur-coloured, clung to the sleeper from low throat to ankle; bands of narrow nolana-blue ribbon crossed her breast… — Bernard Capes Copy Share Image
“Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondences', rather than to realistically… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“He saw a chamber, broad and low, designed, in its every rich stain of picture and slumberous hanging, to appeal to the… — Bernard Capes Copy Share Image
“I have never fully unbosomed myself to any human being; I have never been encouraged to trust much in the sympathy of… — Mary Ann Evans Copy Share Image
“(Decadent style) is ingenious, complicated, learned, full of shades of meaning and research, always pushing further the limits of language... forcing itself… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“Rose was patently a degenerate. Nature, in scheduling his characteristics, had pruned all superlatives. The rude armour of the flesh, under which… — Bernard Capes Copy Share Image
“I fancy my father thought me an odd child, and had little fondness for me; though he was very careful in fulfilling… — Mary Ann Evans Copy Share Image
“In the end, this volume should be read a s a collection of love stories, Above all, they are tales of love,… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Lady Sarah Henbery was his hostess, and the inspired projector of a new scheme of existence (that was, in effect, the repudiation… — Bernard Capes Copy Share Image
“The Marquis de V... - whose falsetto voice and little watery eyes I have always detested - was saying to me with… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
I am a communist and a worker, and I have lived in a decadent capitalist society where the workers are slaves. — Lee Harvey Oswald Copy Share Image
“Leading with DESIRE is a decadent opportunity to create an everyday love affair with life.” — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
“I like the word ‘decadent,’ all shimmering with purple and gold … it throws out the brilliance of flames and the gleam… — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
“In this image (watching sensual murder through a peephole) Lorrain embodies the criminal delight of decadent art. The watcher who records the… — Jennifer Birkett Copy Share Image
“Astarte has come again, more powerful than before. She possesses me. She lies in wait for me. December 97 My cruelty has… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
“In the course of my life I have had pre-pubescent ballerinas; emaciated duchesses, dolorous and forever tired, melomaniac and morphine-sodden; bankers' wives… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
