Difficult Quote by Christian Louboutin

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they…

— Ernest Hemingway

I don't see decadence really as what you do, because I don't do much at all that is decadent in my life. But I…

— Marianne Faithfull

To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Decadence is an elusive concept, resistant to concise definition. In the broadest sense one might explain it as a delight in or preoccupation with…

— David J. Bell

Decadence is wonderful.

— Jack L. Chalker

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action...

— Gore Vidal

One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.

— Robert Silverberg

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying…

— Gore Vidal

A decade is a very long time to be away from somebody.

— Liza Weil

“In my opinion, the present symptoms of decadence are explained by the fact that the development of industry and machinery has made the struggle…

— Albert Einstein

A century is about events. A decade is about people.

— George Friedman

As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay.

— Mason Cooley