Decadent Quotes

47 quotes by 43 authors

I believe that eating simple food in a healthy body with a clean conscience is more pleasurable, and infinitely more satisfying, then eating decadent food… — John Robbins
JUST LIKE CANDY is a delicious, decadent treat. — Cheyenne McCray
If you're a nice person and you work hard, you get to go shopping at Barneys. It's the decadent reward. — Sarah Jessica Parker
Once you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the grocery store, after… — Renee Zellweger
I was very young when I prepared those prints. I suspect the reason I couldn't celebrate the floating world was that I couldn't bring myself… — Kazuo Ishiguro
We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of conspiring to teach… — Dorothy Day
A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect. — Emile M. Cioran
Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow in… — Brooks Atkinson
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action... — Gore Vidal
Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters — Saul Bellow
I would say I live half in New York and half in Claridge's. How decadent! How hysterical! — Erin O'Connor
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
The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent.… — John Maynard Keynes
To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way. — Christian Louboutin
When I got my success, I became decadent for a while. This was 2003 to 2008. I fell for tiramisu really hard. I've become more… — Jill Scott
Los Angeles, I don't like that town. Too decadent, and it's slimy. — Layne Staley
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it.… — Gore Vidal
I figured I could read more than five pages tonight since I'd been deprived for the last couple of days. When I finished the fifteenth,… — Richelle Mead
Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked… — Jack Kerouac
...of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant. — Yukio Mishima

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