Decadence Quote by Compton Mackenzie Download Open image ““Oh, my dear, how too marvelous! I've longed all my life to eat a flamingo.”” — Compton Mackenzie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dear Marvelous Decadence Eat Flamingo Excess Flamingo Life Longed Life Ve Longed
“When the silent flamingo dances pink with desire, I’ll be there, sipping on owl stares and kitten curls.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“I’m not sure I’d like to be burned. I think I might like to be fed to zoo animals. It would be both environmentally… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“You're the only fire that consumes me." And my wonderful monster smiled at that. Smiled at me.” — Saundra Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I'm glad he's hungry. Not that I want him to suffer, poor chap! But then he'll enjoy eating me much more. There's a cheerful… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“For a second, I’m stunned. She wanted this. Just as badly as I did. And I wasted all that time eating chicken Marsala—when I… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
“All’s well here. Hope your life is full of mice, moles, voles, butterflies, and the occasional inattentive bird. In Catitude, Sneaky Pie” — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling porcupine," she crooned. "Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“I want them to bite into a cookie, and think of me, and smile. Food is love. Food has a power.” — Jael McHenry Copy Share Image
Beer does not taste like itself unless it is chasing a dram of neat whisky down the gullet - preferably two drams — Compton Mackenzie Copy Share Image
The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domestic animal. — Compton Mackenzie Copy Share Image
Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen — Compton Mackenzie Copy Share Image
“As the tissues of the body fester and rot under X rays, so under the sun fester and rot Anglo-Saxonism and Teutonism and Scandinavianism… — Compton Mackenzie Copy Share Image
You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like… — Compton Mackenzie Copy Share Image
“He’s such an extraordinarily brilliant person that it would be terrible if he let himself do nothing in the end.” — Compton Mackenzie Copy Share Image
“It is only to the sentimentalist over some tame midland prospect that man appears vile. In Sirene he holds his own with the sublime… — Compton Mackenzie Copy Share Image
Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast. — Compton Mackenzie Copy Share Image
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
“Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondences', rather than to realistically depict the… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I think Illium can take care of himself.” “Not if he keeps flirting with you.” A fine, almost elegant tendril of heat, champagne and… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
“(Decadent style) is ingenious, complicated, learned, full of shades of meaning and research, always pushing further the limits of language... forcing itself to express… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“After two years' absence she finally returned to chilly Europe, a trifle weary, a trifle sad, disgusted by our banal entertainments, our shrunken landscapes,… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
I definitely consider 'Poses' - the whole album in fact - to be kind of a miracle. Like the last breath of that moment… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Fundamentalists believe that we don't believe in anything. In their view of the world, they are in possession of absolute certainties, while we are… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“He saw a chamber, broad and low, designed, in its every rich stain of picture and slumberous hanging, to appeal to the sensuous. And… — Bernard Capes Copy Share Image
The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
