Quotes about Decadence

There's nothing better than cake but more cake.

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.

You sat on a couch of luxury with a table spread before it, on which you had set My incense and My oil,

People who disregard the Bible may someday get what they want—a society where the Bible is no longer read or proclaimed, and where they can freely sin without Scripture confronting their conscience. But they may get more than they bargained for—a society without the moral compass of Scripture will self-destruct from moral decay and decadence.

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

We would never allow child sacrifice, which is one of the sure manifestations of a totally reprobate civilization. Really?

My problem is desserts. I am obsessed with desserts.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.

We wandered around, carrying our bundles of rags in the narrow romantic streets. Everybody looked like a broken-down movie extra, a withered starlet; disenchanted stunt-men, midget auto-racers, poignant California characters with their end-of-the-continent sadness, handsome, decadent, Casanova-ish men, puffy-eyed motel blondes, hustlers, pimps, whores, masseurs, bellhops—a lemon lot, and how's a man going to make a living with a gang like that?

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