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Quotes About Decadent

His voice sounded like the rich taste of chocolate on your tongue.
~ Tamera Alexander
One side charges, 'You are decadent.' The other side retorts, 'We are free.' These are not opposing contentions; they're nonsequiturs.
~ Tamim Ansary
I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.
~ Madonna Ciccone
I suppose you could say that the Russians had a big appetite for life, or you could say they were dissolute and decadent, which was the opposite side of the same ruble.
~ Nelson DeMille
White grapes are very attractive but when it comes to dessert people generally like cake with icing.
~ Fran Lebowitz
Candy is sugar that's all dressed up for the party.
~ Terri Guillemets
During most of my youth I lived on Earth." "Indeed?" Warweave raised his eyebrows in manufactured astonishment. "Out here, you know, we think of Earthmen in terms of stereotypes: cultists, mystics, hyper-civilized epicenes, sinister old men in Institute black, decadent aristocrats Ã¢â'¬Â¦
~ Jack Vance
Fudge is a noun, a verb, an interjection, and delicious!
~ Terri Guillemets
Whatever happened in the world was a decree from God. A task to be completed. Any crying or joy just got in the way of being useful. Any emotion was decadent. Anticipation or regret was a silly extra. A luxury.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I see the steam of the chocolate and the plates of blueberry tarts.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Moj posao je ?okolada. ?okolada je dobra stvar. Ima curica koje vole samo gorku... probirljiva mala prenemagala. (Ne razumem zašto ovo pišem).
~ Vladimir Nabokov
That's why I cringe when I hear aging baby boomers decry the moral and political chaos that has overtaken our country. No doubt things are a mess. But I wonder if these former hippies have forgotten or simply romanticized the decadent and violent days of their youth.
~ Larry Osborne
chocolate muffin, which is just a cupcake without icing.
~ Laurel Snyder
Hot fudge is gravy for ice cream.
~ Internet meme, c. 2013
I like crazy, childlike, candy bar-filled cakes with gooey caramel, chocolate-covered nuts, marshmallows, and the like.
~ Ron Ben-Israel
Chicken and waffles! I'm obsessed with those.
~ Sadie Sink
One of the foremost tasks of art has always been the creation of a demand which could be fully satisfied only later. The history of every art form shows critical epochs in which a certain art form aspires to effects which could be fully obtained only with a changed technical standard, that is to say, in a new art form. The extravagances and crudities of art which thus appear, particularly in the so-called decadent epochs, actually arise from the nucleus of its richest historical energies.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within.
~ Chen Ning Yang
One chocolate truffle had changed her destiny. Indeed, it was one of Celina's best- a silky cocoa powder-dusted truffle filled with raspberry-infused, dark chocolate ganache and enrobed with a couverture , a layer of rich chocolate that melted optimally with the warmth of the body.
~ Jan Moran
The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days.
~ Clement Attlee
Everyone could see the contrast between this thriving, martial, boldly led new Germany and the decadent democracies in the West, whose confusions and vacillations seemed to increase with each new month of the calendar.
~ William L. Shirer
It is the perfect contradiction: It is glamorous and degenerate, cultured and crude, beautiful and detestable, ethical and decadent, exciting and scary all at the same time.
~ Leslie Haskin
But what everybody always loved Mötley Crüe for was being a fucking decadent band: for being able to walk in a room and inhale all the alcohol, girls, pills, and trouble in sight.
~ Tommy Lee
Always Christianity is somewhere in decline, he proposed, and "always Providence has another people quietly maturing to relieve the decadent of their burden.
~ Unknown