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Quotes About Decadence

Poor, darling fellow-he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.
~ Diana Vreeland
Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.
~ Mariska Hargitay
Like pornography, junk [food] might be tough to define but you know it when you see it.
~ Mark Bittman
Proving Rule #84: WHEN NOTHING ELSE WORKS, TRY CHOCOLATE.
~ Mark Frost
It is dull, Son of Adam, to drink without eating, " said the Queen presently. "What would you like best to eat?""Turkish Delight, please, your Majesty, " said Edmund.
~ C.S. Lewis
I never knew anyone actually buy cakes when they were hot ...
~ Unknown
Here, I thought, I had found the human race in its final stages of decadence perverse, insouciant, without ambition. And I could not blame them. After all, they had no future.
~ Michael Moorcock
Forget love... I'd rather fall in chocolate.
~ Anonymous
If it were easy to resist, it would not be called chocolate cake.
~ Unknown
Agatha Swanburne - "So many cupcakes, so little time
~ Unknown
Woman, in the decadent world around us, captures a man by loving him, and, having got him, sometimes comes to admire him, which is all to the good; and, if Fate is not unkind, may descend no lower than liking and enduring.
~ Unknown
Trump became a regular at the club and later recounted seeing "things happening there that to this day I have never seen again. I would watch supermodels getting screwed, well-known supermodels getting screwed on a bench in the middle of the room. There were seven of them and each one was getting screwed by a different guy. This was in the middle of the room. Stuff that couldn't happen today because of problems of death." On
~ Unknown
Estou manchado com esplendor corrupto, sou um código para segredos obscuros, sou um ser à parte, fui gerado na decadência, e vivo sobre a água. Sou o mais diferente possível de ti, e no entanto não sou propriamente um turco ou um peixe" Casanova
~ Unknown
customers away. The Palais-Royal has become a veritable den of iniquity,
~ Michelle Moran
It was an article of faith in eighteenth-century British thought that civilized societies usually formed out of the fundamental human need for security to ensure survival, but the same societies were gradually corrupted by a preoccupation with luxuries, which resulted in decadence.
~ Unknown
Quelle che tu chiami figure di merda sono sprazzi di splendore mediatico che danno lustro al personaggio e che ti rendono più umano e simpatico. Se non esistono più regole etiche ed estetiche le figure di merda decadono di conseguenza.
~ Niccolo Ammaniti
Everything tastes better with maple syrup.
~ Unknown
Modern man defends nothing energetically except his right to debauchery.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Vulgarity is not a product of the people but a subproduct of bourgeois prosperity.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Der moderne Mensch versucht mit der Unzucht, der Gewalt und der Niederträchtigkeit die Unschuld eines höllischen Paradieses zu schaffen.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Nations have two noble modes of existence—ascent or decadence—and one vulgar mode—prosperity.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
The price for absolute freedom is boundless vulgarity.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Ce siècle sombre lentement dans un marécage de sperme et de merde. Lorsqu'il traitera des événements actuels, le futur historien devra enfiler des gants.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila