Quotes About Decadence

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

Sometimes the buzz of reading about others eating comes from the voyeuristic thrill of seeing how the other half lives: the gold leaf and truffles or - in the case of Trimalchio's feast in Petronius' 'Satyricon' - the dormice and honey.

I thrive on cheese and champagne.

If cleverness has often been a sign of decadence throughout history, the attempt to be too clever by half is an even more reliable marker of cultural decline.

Remove prostitutes from human affairs, and you will destroy everything with lust.

But if you are unable to hypothesize it, the facts that I actually experienced will in the end be no more than a hallucination of the incoherent decadence of a poet whose central nerves are damaged by morphine addiction.

Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate!

I'm always, all the time, eating chocolate. I eat pretty healthy, but then I go all out when it has to do with chocolate.

JLB: El lujo me parece una vulgaridad.

In Europe, where dependency, decadence, and demographic decline are extinguishing some of the oldest nations on earth, a successor population is already in place in the restive Muslim housing projects.

Las Vegas no less—the Ugly Shorts Heart of Darkness

Fine-looking women, smoking and drinking and gambling and doing whatever they like? Sounds good!

Hot, salty, crunchy, and portable, the previously awful-sounding collection of greasy delights can become a Garden of Eden of heart-clogging goodness when you're in a drunken stupor, hungering for fried snacks. At that precise moment, nothing could taste better.

Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh.

Le mauvais goût mene au crime.

There are moments in life that the white-chocolate Magnum ice cream was invented for, and this is one of them.

Depravity and decadence are two sides of the same coin.

When Tyler found out about chocolate-chip cookies, his sole goal in life became to stuff as many as he could into his mouth.

Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.

don't know whether that would be the zenith or nadir of decadence

Psychopaths... people who know the differences between right and wrong, but don't give a shit. That's what most of my characters are like.

I spent most of my dough on booze, broads and boats and the rest I wasted.

Esme Rawlings is as intelligent as she is dissolute.