I like this word decadent; all shimmering and purple and…

“I like the word ‘decadent,’ all shimmering with purple and gold … it throws out the brilliance of flames and the gleam of precious…

— Paul Verlaine

To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way.

— Christian Louboutin

I still bleed purple and gold, so it was a no-brainer for me to go to LSU.

— Eric Reid

To put on the purple and gold, there's no better feeling, there's no better organization in basketball.

— Austin Reaves

There's the gold standard, and then there's the purple-and-gold standard.

— Jeanie Buss

I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.

— Kobe Bryant

But I don't look forward to the day that Kobe Bryant's not in purple and gold.

— Jeanie Buss

“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

“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