Decadence Quote by Christopher Hampton

“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

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

— Robert Silverberg

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

With the arrival of the new comes the need to overcome fascination with novelty in order to approach substance and sophistication - a sophistication…

— John Paul Caponigro

“Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and…

— James Thurber

It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way.

— Christian Louboutin

When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

— Aristotle

Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity…

— Charles Mackay