“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
“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
Sultan Beyazid considered his father's art collection decadent and ordered it sold at auction. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
“The other evening, in that cafe-cabaret in the Rue de la Fontaine, where I had run aground with Tramsel and Jocard, who… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
I like to focus on making the music sound simple and true, and very lush and full. I think music should take… — Alice Smith Copy Share Image
“Adornment, exoticism, affectation are all willed decadent strategies meant to pervert the texts they made. Decadent texts often live in their descriptive… — Asti Hustvedt 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
“Superficially, the figure in the smoking-room was that of a long, weedy young man - hairless as to his face; scalped with… — Bernard Capes 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
Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions. — H. Rap Brown Copy Share Image
“8 April 1891 The obscenity of nostrils and mouths; the ignominious cupidity of smiles and women encountered in the street; the shifty… — Jean Lorrain 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
I love to bake! I have a huge sweet tooth, and I love to make things like zucchini muffins, you know, anything… — Lauren Bowles Copy Share Image
“We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past.” — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
There's something fabulously decadent about staying in a hotel across the street from where you live. — Marley Shelton Copy Share Image
If me and my friends are feeling decadent, we go for afternoon tea. — Sophie McShera 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
“Masks! I see them everywhere. That dreadful vision of the other night - the deserted town with its masked corpses in every… — Jean Lorrain 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
“At issue for Peladan is the potency of the visual image: art's ability to construct images for viewing that can mobilize, concentrate… — Jennifer Birkett 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
“For Zola, as for Huysmans, nature itself is uncanny because it is the domain of the feminine, a domain that is constitutionally… — Charles Bernheimer 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
“Look, de Mazel, you've known him for years - hasn't he been known to sleep for forty hours in two days?' 'Forty… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
