If me and my friends are feeling decadent, we go for afternoon tea. — Sophie McShera Copy Share Image
“She had a vague idea that “decadent” had something to do with not opening the curtains all day.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Leading with DESIRE is a decadent opportunity to create an everyday love affair with life.” — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite. — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
“I think God hands over to His apprentices the moulding of vessels that don't interest Him. ("The Accursed Cordonnier")” — Bernard Capes Copy Share Image
'The Irish Duke' is a sequel to 'The Decadent Duke' about Lady Georgina Gordon who married the Duke of Bedford. 'The Irish… — Virginia Henley 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
I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
“We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world—bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully.… — Hunter S. Thompson 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
“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
“For – as everyone knows – in libertinism bad taste is a potent force. ("A Woman's Vengeance")” — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly 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
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
“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
“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
“The neurotic youth of to-day renews no ante-existent type. You will look in vain for a face like Amos's amongst the busts… — Bernard Capes 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
“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
“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
“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
“I fancy my father thought me an odd child, and had little fondness for me; though he was very careful in fulfilling… — Mary Ann Evans 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
“Astarte has come again, more powerful than before. She possesses me. She lies in wait for me. December 97 My cruelty has… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
