Quotes About Decadence

We use fashion for status and to beautify and there's nothing wrong with that, but when it becomes completely unbalanced, then you're living a decadent life. And when that happens on a global scale, you're living in a decadent world.

Ottolenghi sells lots of delicious sweet things, but my daily addiction is their unbelievable dark chocolate salted caramel biscuits. They're the best things in the world - I go through half a packet every night. I bring them out after pudding at dinner parties.

Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.

Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.

I can't walk by chocolate without eating it.

Sometimes a girl's gotta have some chocolate!

I never met a chocolate I could not eat.

I spend my days watching soap operas, eating bonbons and plotting society's downfall.

Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.

I used to go to Haagen-Dazs and order three banana splits at a time!

The Cheesecake Factory is a great business model, but if you take your wife there for your 25th wedding anniversary, you might not reach your 26th.

Even the successful 1985 Bret Easton Ellis book (and 1987 film) Less Than Zero, which tracks the falling from grace of wealthy Los Angeles teens, could not be imagined with the logically equivalent title: Negative.

parece seguro que esta decadencia relativa continuará en un futuro inmediato. Para muchos estadounidenses, la principal importancia de Europa no es la de ser un rival estratégico sino un destino turístico.

I just think Christmas is a time to embrace all the naughty little things.

Even at the End of Days, there will be lap dancing.

What can I say? Every tooth I have is a sweet tooth

Fond of bewailing the decadence of the modern world, of denouncing the younger generation for its lack of idealism and public spirit, he is blind to the fact of his own enormous selfishness. He is one of those invalids who make use of their real or imagined sufferings to get their own way.

it's like a mini Bourbon Street with less culture and more disgusting hookers.

La juventud ya no quiere aprender nada, la ciencia está en decadencia, el mundo marcha patas arriba, los ciegos guían a otros ciegos y los despeñan en los abismos, los pájaros se arrojan antes de haber echado a volar, el asno toca la lira, los bueyes bailan, María ya no ama la vida contemplativa y Marta ya no ama la vida activa, Lea es estéril, Raquel está llena de lascivia, Catón frecuenta los lupanares, Lucrecio se convierte en mujer.

Vivimos para los libros. Dulce misión en este mundo dominado por el desorden y la decadencia.

É verdade, disse Bêncio, sorrindo pela primeira vez com o rosto quase se iluminando. Nós vivemos para os livros. Doce missão neste mundo dominado pela desordem e pela decadência.

When a man does wrong, he should do all the wrong he can; it is madness to stop half-way in crime!

If it's not chocolate, it's not breakfast.

Chocolate is food from the gods; it's energy, vitality, oneness.