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The larvae! The scent of young blood entices and draws them closer. There's no need to venture into antiquity to evoke the shades of the dead.
— Jean Lorrain
There's no such thing, of course, as an old-fashioned gay guy. They're the most decadent people.
— Norm MacDonald
I tend to like order in almost every other aspect of my life, but for me, the process of writing is really chaotic and decadent and indulgent.
— Dan Chaon
How? Give me permission, tell me it's okay to strip you naked, kiss you wherever the need takes me, and f**k you until you can't see straight.
— Dominique Eastwick
Stay where I can taste you. Take the pleasure I give you.
— Shayla Black
One side charges, 'You are decadent.' The other side retorts, 'We are free.' These are not opposing contentions; they're nonsequiturs.
— Tamim Ansary
For a decadent like Baudelaire the only possible ends are suicide or the foot of the cross
— Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly
There's something wildy decadent about the young-star lifestyle, and I just don't really see the point. I got my partying out of my system in college.
— Anne Hathaway
In passing the mansion looks decadent but when taking the time to truly look at some of the nooks and crannies, it's amazing how neglected it was.
— Holly Madison
I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.
— Madonna Ciccone
There's something fabulously decadent about staying in a hotel across the street from where you live.
— Marley Shelton
... Being the worst confirmation of the worst kind of generation gap stereotype and parental disgust for their decadent, wastoid kids
— David Foster Wallace
The decadent artist markets other people's pain
— Jennifer Birkett
Can you tie your cherry stem into a knot, boys?
— Kali Willows
Sultan Beyazid considered his father's art collection decadent and ordered it sold at auction.
— Stephen Kinzer
This simple dessert reminds me a little of our relationship, sweet and decadent and oh so bad for you.
— Alexis Alvarez
This man was like a decadent triple-chocolate truffle cake with chocolate shavings sprinkled on top.
— Katie Reus
She had a vague idea that "decadent" had something to do with not opening the curtains all day.
— Terry Pratchett
If you're a nice person and you work hard, you get to go shopping at Barneys. It's the decadent reward.
— Sarah Jessica Parker
A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.
— Emile M. Cioran
There is nothing quite so beautiful as the written word -worn as a jewel, adorning the segmented lines of papyrus".
— Gerald Mills
Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian Guard ruled.
— Gore Vidal
The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer
— Alfred De Musset
He tasted like popcorn, cherry gummy bears, and every decadent, forbidden thing. He tasted like bad choices.
— A Meredith Walters
I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.
— Marianne Faithfull
Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.
— Emile Durkheim
Although he had always been a gentleman till then, he had 'caught his century', a disease impossible to analyze but by this simple phrase.
— Rachilde
Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters.
— Kenneth Rexroth
Where will Decadent Romance and Intrigue, Lead you?
— Eileen Green
I would say I live half in New York and half in Claridge's. How decadent! How hysterical!
— Erin O'Connor
The bigger the headquarters the more decadent the company.
— James Goldsmith
Opium was decadent. Opium was for grandfathers.
— Cynthia Palmer
My, you do like to dominate
— JoAnne Kenrick
The cake was sinfully decadent, dripping with chocolate, exactly the way a birthday cake should be.
— Rysa Walker
Finished products are for decadent minds.
— Isaac Asimov
I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.
— Ellen Willis
I think God hands over to His apprentices the moulding of vessels that don't interest Him.
("The Accursed Cordonnier") — Bernard Capes
("The Accursed Cordonnier") — Bernard Capes
By living a life "against nature," the deviant or pervert becomes a hero or heroine in decadent fiction.
— Asti Hustvedt
Be it ever so decadent, there's no place like home.
— Tom Lehrer
You will find very exquisite flowers sometime even on a dust-heap, as well as where humanity grows thickest and rankest.
— Hume Nisbet
She had died and joined the Marine Corps. Or was God an aging general? Either way, she knew it couldn't be heaven 'cause there was no chocolate.
— Clare Dargin
Societies who do not care for their young people and old people are decadent, decaying societies.
— Suzan Shown Harjo
Europe is like the Roman Empire - indulged, decadent, flooded with immigrants and unprepared to fight for its culture.
— Filip Dewinter
To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way.
— Christian Louboutin
Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
If me and my friends are feeling decadent, we go for afternoon tea.
— Sophie McShera
I grew up in an apartment that would have made a trailer look really decadent and nice. Pretty much the only dependable thing I had was books.
— Seanan McGuire
I like this word decadent; all shimmering and purple and gold.
— Paul Verlaine
Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters
— Saul Bellow
JUST LIKE CANDY is a delicious, decadent treat.
— Cheyenne McCray
We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past.
— James Elroy Flecker
Drop by Bell's for an Irish Kiss anytime. The best in England
— JoAnne Kenrick