Paris is wild; it's decadent... it's so many things.

“Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondences', rather than to realistically depict the…

— Asti Hustvedt

“Stay where I can taste you. Take the pleasure I give you.”

— Shayla Black

“The Marquis de V... - whose falsetto voice and little watery eyes I have always detested - was saying to me with a wicked…

— Jean Lorrain

I don't see decadence really as what you do, because I don't do much at all that is decadent in my life. But I…

— Marianne Faithfull

“There were charming ones as well as terrible ones, that I must admit. The painter was particularly entranced by Japanese masks: warriors', actors' and…

— Jean Lorrain

“This,' said the stranger softly, as if to himself, 'is the woeful proof, indeed, of decadence. Man waives his prerogative of lordship over the…

— Bernard Capes

“Rose was patently a degenerate. Nature, in scheduling his characteristics, had pruned all superlatives. The rude armour of the flesh, under which the spiritual,…

— Bernard Capes

“I think God hands over to His apprentices the moulding of vessels that don't interest Him. ("The Accursed Cordonnier")”

— Bernard Capes

“The beauty of the twentieth century is the charm of the hospital, the grace of the cemetery, of consumption and emaciation. I admit that…

— Jean Lorrain

I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.

— Marianne Faithfull

I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my…

— Anne Hathaway

“He saw a chamber, broad and low, designed, in its every rich stain of picture and slumberous hanging, to appeal to the sensuous. And…

— Bernard Capes

“After two years' absence she finally returned to chilly Europe, a trifle weary, a trifle sad, disgusted by our banal entertainments, our shrunken landscapes,…

— Octave Mirbeau

“(Decadent style) is ingenious, complicated, learned, full of shades of meaning and research, always pushing further the limits of language... forcing itself to express…

— Theophile Gautier

We use fashion for status and to beautify and there's nothing wrong with that, but when it becomes completely unbalanced, then you're living a…

— David LaChapelle