Decadence Quote by Jack L. Chalker Download Open image “Decadence is wonderful.” — Jack L. Chalker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Decadence Wonderful
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way. — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
“Decadence is a moral and spiritual disease, resulting from too long a period of wealth and power, producing cynicism, decline of religion, pessimism and… — John Bagot Glubb Copy Share Image
“Decadence begins when the budget to beautify a man's home exceeds the coin spent to ensure its defense.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“It’s easy to rattle the saber if the enemy’s five thousand or more kilometers distant.” — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
“Nothing has taken more money or killed more people in the history of your race than religion,” — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
“Magic,” Core responded, “is anything observable and perhaps repeatable that cannot be explained in terms of any existing knowledge on the part of the… — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
“It makes absolutely no difference in the scheme of things whether all but a handful of people live or die. No more than the… — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday. — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
“What was love, anyway? he mused. She said it was caring, caring more about someone else than about yourself.” — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them. — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
“Love is the most abused word in history. It is, simply, caring more for others than you do for yourself.” — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
“There are only three kinds of people in the universe, no matter what their race or form. They are scoundrels, hypocrites, and sheep.” — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain… — Jack L. Chalker 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
