Quotes About Decadence

Life is too short to not have oysters and champagne sometimes

To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.

We don't see the people that vice destroys. We just see the glamour of it - everywhere we look, from billboard signs to movies, to newspapers, to magazines. We see the destruction of human life.

But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.

I have no profession. It is another example of my decadence. My attitude - quite an indefensible one - is that so long as I am no trouble to any one I have a right to do as I like. I know I ought to be getting money out of people, or devoting myself to things I don't care a straw about, but somehow, I've not been able to begin." "You are quite fortunate, it is quite a wonderful opportunity, the possession of leisure.

While the Gods are powerful, we learn little about them. It is only in their day of decadence that a strong light beats into heaven.

I'll obey them in the winter when the doctors say to me I must give up ham and spinach, and obedient I'll be. To relieve my indigestion in December they can try, But there's none of them can stop me when it's time for cherry pie.

If you get melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too slowly.

Chocolate is the answer. Who cares what the question is.

Chocolate, men, coffee — some things are better rich.

There are four basic food groups: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and chocolate truffles.

Money may talk, but chocolate sings.

Civilised my syphilised yarbles.

in Roman culture. There was a widespread belief that traditional values were being undermined by foreign immigrants. The decadence that was perceived to permeate the Republic

Pudding is my favourite part of any meal and I always have one if I can manage it.

I am very fond of chocolates.

I don't even know what my favourite food is anymore, as they are all such bad foods!

Butter, cream, and bacon. That's such a great foundation right there.

I love eating bread fried in butter.

I love cheeseburgers; I love fries, cheese curds, the list goes on.

By God!' Christopher exclaimed. 'I loathe your whole beastly buttered-toast, mutton-chopped, carpet-slippered, rum-negused comfort as much as I loathe your beastly Riviera-palaced, chauffeured, hydraulic-lifted, hot-house aired beastliness of fornication.…

Memory is capricious. I can look back and see decadence, old bigots, the constant racial slurs, the bores, the wild cards, the bighearted, the family album of alcoholics, the saints, the old aunt propped in a chair saying only da-da, the slow-motion suicides, but at four, six, ten, they loomed, powerful, not as types but as themselves. Among them, logic takes wing. (pg. 31)

Food and wine are my extravagances.

I love food and wine, they are both passions of mine.