Decadent Quotes
47 quotes by 43 authors
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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
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JUST LIKE CANDY is a delicious, decadent treat.
— Cheyenne McCray
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.
— Emile M. Cioran
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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
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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action...
— Gore Vidal
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Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters
— Saul Bellow
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I would say I live half in New York and half in Claridge's. How decadent! How hysterical!
— Erin O'Connor
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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
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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
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To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way.
— Christian Louboutin
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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
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Los Angeles, I don't like that town. Too decadent, and it's slimy.
— Layne Staley
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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
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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
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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
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...of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant.
— Yukio Mishima
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