Quotes About Decadence

The wine is drawn, M. le Marquis...we must drink it.?

She knew all the best doctors and Swedish cleaning ladies and where to buy the finest brownies. It was either Greenberg's or William Pohl, "depending on what your chocolate craving is signaling.

Since "the society" has no future, it makes sense to live only for the moment, to fix our eyes on our own "private performance," to become connoisseurs of our own decadence, to cultivate a "transcendental self-attention.

What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.

I always supposed I would be delicious

I always supposed I would be delicious," I hear him say, although I note that he does not take any of the meat for himself

no tin of Quality Street or Cadbury's selection boxes.

I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with. And there's something wildy decadent about the young-star lifestyle, and I just don't really see the point.

My favorite splurge is homemade chocolate cake and vanilla ice cream or a Sausage McMuffin with egg or scalloped potatoes or turkey yanked right off the carcass and dipped in gravy or See's chocolate.

Pompeii was an incredibly corrupt city. Pompeii was the Las Vegas of the Roman Empire.

I'll never turn down a red velvet cupcake.

Would I like to have a red velvet cupcake with cream cheese frosting? Yeah, I would.

Despite my strict, healthy diet when mired within my regular routine, when I venture in a explorative fashion for a meal, it's all out, no-holds barred, dessert, and drinks, the whole nine.

There were pencil scrawls and ink stains, dried blood, snack crumbs; and the leather binding itself was secured to the lectern by a chain. Here was a book that contained the collected knowledge of the past while giving evidence of present social conditions...The dictionary contained every word in the English language but the chain knew only a few. It knew thief and steal and, maybe, purloined. The chain spoke of poverty and mistrust and inequality and decadence.

More and more, people forgot about the individual reasons why the girls may have killed themselves, the stress disorders and insufficient neurotransmitters, and instead put the deaths down to the girls' foresight in predicting decadence.

donut can give you the kind of hug from inside that celery just can't muster.

Some things are supposed to be made with butter. You're one of them.

First of all, it's got a million calories.

I don't really work out. I eat a lot of sweets. I have chocolate all over my house.

In the Eighties, live work had to be very extravagant.

I cannot finish a meal if I do not have a good dessert. But when I say good, I mean it has to be really good. And it's usually small stuff - a piece of candy, crepes, some apple cobbler. No cake.

All food is just a vehicle for transporting butter to my mouth

Rather than creating a pure Reich out of a Weimar Germany almost glorifying in its hedonistic allure, the Nazi hierarchy would exhibit every symptom of decadence. When the drug-addicted Goering was arrested in 1945, his fingernails were varnished red; on being strip-searched, it was discovered his toenails were painted, too.

The fear of decadence is the fear – and fascination – of the other. It is a fantasy fear of letting go, of the abandonment of principle. In that it is an essentially middle-class fear, for the upper classes with their privilege – literally, private law – were answerable to no one, while the working class were both expendable and by tradition prone to vice