Quotes About Decadence

Eli was sin wrapped in dark chocolate.

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.

Adultery is not a crime, it's an amusement.

There is nothing like good food, good wine, and a bad girl.

Society has become so obsessed with sex that it seeps from all the pores of our national life.

In a decadent society the will to believe, to resist, to contend, to fight, to struggle is gone. In place of this will to resist, there is the desire to conform, to drift, to follow, to yield, and not give up.

The fact that immorality is rampant throughout the nation doesn't make it right!

It has always been a mark of decaying civilizations to become obsessed with sex. When people lose their way, their purpose, their will, and their goals, as well as their faith . . . they go "a whoring." It is a form of diversion that requires no thought, no character, and no restraint.

Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way.

The foie gras—goose liver for the uninitiated—arrived. I was indeed starving and dug in. I know the animal-rights people would crucify me, but I can't help it. I love foie gras. Win had red wine already poured. I took a sip. I'm no expert, but it tasted like a deity had personally squeezed the grapes.

Whores hung out the windows like shreds of leftover Christmas decorations.

If one is unable to buy Courvoisier, one should forcibly restrain oneself from serving strawberries Romanoff for dessert.

The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of dogmatism. It is the story of the struggle of free thought with bigotry, religion making common cause with the wrong side.

Chocolate's good for ya - high cocoa content chocolate is.

In 2010, Republicans took control of politics in Alabama by advocating for increased transparency and an end to government corruption, but instead of ending it, they have raised the level of corruption to the point that the stench of dishonesty fills the air, decadence drives policy, and bribery is the norm in Montgomery.

Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.

humans will sink to the lowest depths if the right opportunity presents itself.

Three flutes of champagne in the early afternoon anchored by the weight of nine oysters.

Chocolate, I am sure, is the concrete manifestation of love.

You've got to try this," I told Bones, handing him the glass. "It's like Cristal and O-Negative had a love child.

On the other hand, a flaccid, moping, debauched mollusc, tired from too much love and loose-nerved from general world conditions, can be a shameful thing served raw upon the shell.

Perhaps his next task should be to concoct an eighth deadly sin. Or he could work toward finding even a dozen. The devil knew he'd worn out the original seven.

Even she agreed that a woman had a right to chocolate.