One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
“Oh, my dear, how too marvelous! I've longed all my life to eat a flamingo.” — Compton Mackenzie Copy Share Image
Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I absolutely believe that when one goes on vacation, it should be pure decadence. — Crystal Renn Copy Share Image
As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Religion is the biggest influence on the intellect and the decadence of a people. — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
“decadence begins when men no longer find within themselves a reason to relate their lives to that of others and not when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me, I wanted to create something that's much more driven by a type of selfishness, a type of decadence. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“I was performing my ritual of sipping tea, shooting flirtatious glances and planning murder” — Mingmei Yip 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 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
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
“Let the beggar speak for himself. He's in earnest. Haven't we been bred on the principle of self-sacrifice, till we've come to… — Bernard Capes Copy Share Image
“Although he had always been a gentleman till then, he had 'caught his century', a disease impossible to analyze but by this… — Rachilde 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
In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively… — Augusto Roa Bastos Copy Share Image
I think Illium can take care of himself.” “Not if he keeps flirting with you.” A fine, almost elegant tendril of heat,… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
“The habit is now confirmed in me of spending the greater part of the day in sleep, while by night I wander… — M.P. Shiel Copy Share Image
“I suppose I'm what they call a decadent, one whose spirit is outwardly defined by those sad glimmers of artificial eccentricity that… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Much of the misgiving that Muslims feel for the West stems from our strong emphasis on freedom, always a risky enterprise. I've… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“The beauty of the twentieth century is the charm of the hospital, the grace of the cemetery, of consumption and emaciation. I… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
“The baronet, in his old age, had been cast up by his vices on the shores of melancholy; heavy-eyed, grey-haired, bent, he… — Barry Pain Copy Share Image
There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Our culture has few taboos that can't be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I have no idea how long Quisser was gone from the table. My attention became fully absorbed by the other faces in… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“The dense fog manifests ever-living gravestones, the tunes of decadence, the hearts that were doomed to dance alone. Here lies untouched beauty,… — Laura Gentile Copy Share Image
“Our way would seem quite familiar to the Romans, more by far than the Greek way. Socrates in the Symposium, when Alcibiades… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Then Chameroy spoke. 'You always put the blame on opium, but as I see it the case of Freneuse is much more… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
“Freneuse is an oddball, an idler, without any aim in life! If you ask me, he has smoked too much opium in… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
“Decline is also a form of voluptuousness, just like growth. Autumn is just as sensual as springtime. There is as much greatness… — Iwan Goll 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
“While the Gods are powerful, we learn little about them. It is only in their day of decadence that a strong light… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“In this age of decadence that we live in, people's minds are twisted and only words are loved but not preactial deeds.” — Renee Ahdieh Copy Share Image
You gotta eat right, you gotta have healthy habits, you know, and balance out your decadence with a healthy lifestyle during the… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
