Quotes About Decadence

Tom et Daisy étaient deux êtres parfaitement insouciants — ils cassaient les objets, ils cassaient les humains, puis ils s'abritaient derrière leur argent, ou leur extrême insouciance, ou je-ne-sais-quoi qui les tenait ensemble, et ils laissent à d'autres le soin de nettoyer et de balayer les débris.

There is nothing, she would think, more delicious that the icing of bought chocolate cake, eaten in the silence and privacy of the night.

Come chocolates, pequena; Come chocolates! Olha que não há mais metafísica no mundo senão chocolates. Olha que as religiões todas não ensinam mais que a confeitaria.

Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

A Decadência é a perda total da inconsciência; porque a inconsciência é o fundamento da vida. O coração, se pudesse pensar, pararia.

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I couldn't live without butter. Butter is probably my single favourite food.

I am a chocolate fiend.

My favorite thing in the world is a box of fine European chocolates which is, for sure, better than sex.

First of all, whoever didn't want to be a member of this association or the other association, was branded, you know, like a dangerous individualist, you know, infected by the Western decadence, you know. So everybody joined.

When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.

When I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, there was a bunch of guys selling fresh oysters and I'd eat ten daily - marvellous.

Decadence begins with the loss of restraint.

I'm so fond of luxury

What's this? Bacon and tangerines. We are going to have an orgy.

True decadence wasn't anything carnal; it was about sacrificing the powerless minority for the sake of the majority.

Lucullus dines with Lucullus,' that is quite sufficient.

They were of the female persuasion and richly endowed with vice.

caramel Camelot.

She was in the downstairs bathroom sneaking bites from the macaroons my father's firm always sent us for Christmas. She ate them greedily they were like suns bursting open in her mouth.

America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence.

Perhaps that was all he had to live on for the next couple of months. Jezal planned to take that money away from him and waste it all on women and drink. He had to stop himself giggling at the thought.

Appetizers are the little things you keep eating until you lose your appetite.