Decadence Quote by Jack L. Chalker

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

“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 begins with the loss of restraint.”

— Robert Pogue Harrison

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Aristotle

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

— Christian Louboutin

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

— Robert Silverberg

“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

“Decadence begins when the budget to beautify a man's home exceeds the coin spent to ensure its defense.”

— Mark Lawrence

“What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.”

— Herman Bavinck

The '80s was a great decade for comedy.

— Judge Reinhold