The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.” — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before. — Jesse Metcalfe Copy Share Image
“Bully the jade, and she will love you. ("The Accursed Cordonnier")” — Bernard Capes Copy Share Image
“licentious. Despite all they’d done, the decadence was stimulating. She” — Aleatha Romig Copy Share Image
In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations… — Oscar Wilde 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
“More than GM Foods I am afraid of GMM People. Genetically and Mentally Mutated People. The Entire Ecosystem Mutates.” — Vineet Raj Kapoor Copy Share Image
How does one make a movie about decadence these days? Now that we're allowed to do it, it's too late. — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
The horse is, like man, the most beautiful and the most miserable of creatures, only, in the case of man, it is… — Rosa Bonheur Copy Share Image
I think Americans are good, but America will be taken over and destroyed from the inside by the Zionist lobby. The Americans… — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
“Those very superficial sensualists and profligates who lead the dance of Latin decadence have not seen, among their dancing girls and their… — Josephin Peladan Copy Share Image
Everybody knows about Las Vegas. It's a state of mind. Some people want to come with their kids and have a great… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Waiting for Godot was not allowed. Neither was Henry Miller. The Soviets condemned them both. Miller would have been used as an… — Barney Rosset Copy Share Image
It may well be a sign of the decadence of the Church and the failure of Christianity that gifts have to be… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
“The conventional use of words and of narrative structure is deliberately subverted in decadent fiction; language deviates from the established norms in… — Asti Hustvedt 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
There's a kind of decadence about all this: If 9/11 was really an inside job, you wouldn't be driving around with a… — Mark Steyn 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
“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
“Decadence is an elusive concept, resistant to concise definition. In the broadest sense one might explain it as a delight in or… — David J. Bell Copy Share Image
“It is well known how the book spread like an infectious disease, from city to city, from continent to continent, barred out… — Robert W. Chambers 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
“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
“Stop sleeping, Get to work! You will have much time to sleep when you die.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls… — Jane Fonda 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
The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
