Quotes About Decadence

La décadence d'une société commence quand l'homme se demande: "Que va-t-il arriver?" au lieu de se demander: "Que puis-je faire?

Arnold Toynbee has pointed out that the decadence of a great culture is usually accompanied by the rise of a new World Church which extends hope to the domestic proletariat while serving the needs of a new warrior class. School seems eminently suited to be the World Church of our decaying culture.

This is like a cookie, it tastes like a cookie having sex with a doughnut.

As a diversion, few things were as effective as chocolate cake.

He stared for ten seconds or more, which, when eating a chocolate cake isn't much, but when staring, is.

Olivier was holding a tray of mille feuilles, meringues, slices of pies and little custard tarts with glazed fruit on top. He chose one covered in tiny wild blueberries.

Behold great Whitman, whose licentious line Delights the rake, and warms the souls of swine; Whose fever'd fancy shuns the measur'd pace, And copies Ovid's filth without his grace. In his rough brain a genius might have grown, Had he not sought to play the brute alone; But void of shame, he let his wit run wild, And liv'd and wrote as Adam's bestial child.

New York... Babylon-on-the-Hudson, sinful, extravagant, full of the nervous hilarity of the doomed.

Since its appearance the view that prostitution is a product of capitalism has gained ground enormously. And as, in addition, preachers still complain that the good old morals have decayed, and accuse modern culture of having led to loose living, everyone is convinced that all sexual wrongs represent a symptom of decadence peculiar to our age.

There is even the dignity of vice.

I try to run so I can eat anything I want. I feel it's a luxury to be able to splurge on something like foie gras and not have to think about it.

No stinting here, not on the after-breakfast champagne.

Add in dry ingredients and stir. Refrigerate this dough for at least an hour (longer is better). Place tablespoon-sized dollops on parchment-paper-lined pan--leave room for spreading. Bake for 12-14 minutes. For maximum decadence, wait until cookies cool, then dip half of the cookie in melted chocolate and allow to set. These are sweet cookies, so we recommend

Everyone knew how they dripped with perfume, were corrupt from soft living.

Never mind dear. . . . It would have been too rich anyway. . . . You eat that and I'll let you run out after dinner and buy some candy." "Oh goody." "But dont eat the icecream too fast or you'll have collywobbles.

There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless our mental and moral deterioration, how swiftly all-embracing our final decadence. I never saw her read a book again; but she referred to books often - as if they were shrines and cathedrals of learning that television had plundered and then abandoned.

the wretched practices of the Republic endured: corruption, decadence, the lust for prestige.

Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.

Beulah, peel me a grape.

Goodness had nothing to do with it.

nos enfrentamos a un eclipse de nuestra vida católica tradicional como fuerza visible con algún nivel de eficacia. También opino, eminencia, que el papa debe considerar la estructura tradicional de su Iglesia como algo inútil y pasado de moda, puesto que permite su decadencia. Si ésa no es su idea, no hay otra forma de comprenderlo que como totalmente aberrante y negligente de su responsabilidad pontificia como papa.

Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense

Men, chocolate, and coffee are all better rich.

Life is short...eat desert first!!