Quotes About Decadence

While a hidden orchestra played funeral marches, the guests were waited on by naked negresses wearing only slippers and stockings in cloth of silver embroidered with tears.

In the absence of virtue and wisdom, intelligence becomes a servant of evil.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

To me, chocolate was the sole reason we on this earth.

In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.

I definitely consider 'Poses' - the whole album in fact - to be kind of a miracle. Like the last breath of that moment when decadence is healthy, 'Poses' encapsulates that feeling. It's a kind of song and a kind of album that I'll never be able to repeat.

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.

I love ice cream and gulab jamuns.

I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.

I still eat my ice cream if I want to. I like dessert, of course.

Candy is my fuel. Ice cream, too.

I like Kahlua and ice cream as a dessert.

I eat ice cream all the time.

I like pralines-and-cream ice cream.

I'm the biggest ice cream eater you've ever met!

Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.

Don't you miss the days when America was just MORALLY bankrupt?

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: deliciousness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments, said Frex.

The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments," said Frex.

gave up Nutella in December 2011. A few years later I thought I would be able to handle the Nutella once more so I bought two jars on sale. I ate 4,000 calories of Nutella over 36 hours.

This haze of blood must subside, the palace must collapse under the weight of the riches it conceals, the orgy must finish and the time come to awaken.

So when will this society, bastardised by every debauchery of mind, body and soul, finally come to an end?

Mais, comme il éprouvait une peine infinie à découvrir des idées, il prit la spécialité des déclamations sur la décadence des moeurs sur l'abaissement des caractères, l'affaissement du patriotisme et l'anémie de l'honneur français. (Il avait trouvé le mot anémie dont il était fier.)