Quotes About Decadence

Among these odd folk, who correspond exactly to the decadent element of "white trash" in the South, law and morals are non-existent; and their general mental status is probably below that of any other section of the native American people.

His family never called to see him; probably it had found another temporary head, after the manner of decadent mountain folk.

What is it?" she mumbled. "Something that will make my kisses taste like chocolate.

She glanced down at the muffin, as if debating whether to drench it with even more butter. The term Maximum Tolerable Chins popped into Mrs. Watson's head—it had come up the first time they sat down at the table together, the benchmark for whether Miss Holmes ate as she wished or gave in to the lamentable necessity to curb her appetite. With visible regret Miss Holmes set down her butter knife.

Of course. Now she saw the error of her ways. She had been so consumed by the Vigenère cipher that she—horrors—hadn't been eating properly. A quick glance at the mirror told her that she was down to only one point three chins. No wonder her brain was so slow and unwieldy, like a steam engine on the last shovel of coal. Two more madeleines and she felt like a new woman.

Miss Holmes eyed a third slice of Madeira cake, but did not reach for it—possibly because she was approaching Maximum Tolerable Chins, the point at which she began regulating further helpings of cakes and puddings.

If I can't have too many truffles I'll do without.

Shiny first. Pastries later.

As long as there's coffee and chocolate, nothing else matters.

I still love red velvet cake.

I love cakes. Chocolate and coconut cakes. I love that combination!

I'm a terribly irresponsible eater - I love soft-boiled eggs and chocolate. I never met a chocolate I could not eat.

America was aptly described by George Bernard Shaw, who said that it was 'the only country which had gone from barbarism to decadence without once passing through civilization.

You can have all the cupcakes you want.

hard candies

Es mejor dejarse tentar por un croissant que por un hombre.

I live in an unethical society that coarsens the sensibilities and thwarts the capacities for goodness of most people but makes available for minority consumption an astonishing array of intellectual and aesthetic pleasures. Those who don't enjoy (in both senses) my pleasures have every right, from their side, to regard my consciousness as spoiled, corrupt, decadent. I, from my side, can't deny the immense richness of these pleasures, or my addiction to them.

En todos los ocasos de la Humanidad ha surgido la tentación de endiosar a los animales: lo hicieron las civilizaciones bárbaras, de Egipto a Cartago, que imaginaron un panteón que era en realidad un zoológico amedrentador, poblado por alimañas; y lo volvieron a hacer las civilizaciones refinadas, cuando llegó su decrepitud

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces, and then eat just one of the pieces.

On every shopping trip, there is one indulgence.

Everything tastes better with quite a lot of butter." "We

It's an indulgence to go out for bacon and eggs. It's not something you can do every day.

Still, if you ask me, some parts are just as beautiful as my dream version—even more beautiful if you subscribe to the Tennessee Williams decadence-as-poetry theory that ravaged radiance is even better than earnest maintenance.

You sure, because It looks like he could be draped across a buffet table and drizzled with chocolate.