Top 20 Decadence Quotes

Here we have the best Decadence Quotes from famous authors such as Maripol, Jenkin Lloyd Jones, John O’Hara, Paul Guilfoyle, Jennifer Coolidge. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.

When I came to America, there was a lot of decadence in New York in the early ’70s because the city was bankrupt and you could do whatever you want!

Maripol

The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of dogmatism. It is the story of the struggle of free thought with bigotry, religion making common cause with the wrong side.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.

John O’Hara

The thing that attracted me to ‘CSI’ is that these guys are always professional, but underneath, it’s teeming with a heavy shadow. Maybe even some decadence and some weirdness with certain characters! And that always intrigued me as an actor.

Paul Guilfoyle

I live in New Orleans part of the year, and it’s a really fun eating town. I bought two homes there, one to live in and one as an investment. They love to eat, drink and dress up in costumes. There are so many reasons to dress up – Mardi Gras, Halloween, Southern Decadence.

Jennifer Coolidge

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

Raymond Chandler

The American system is a beautiful and durable thing, but flawed. I would like to think that this decadence is not sustainable, whether in the eyes of the electorate or the eyes of whatever the local economy is built on; that would bring me hope.

Mark Leibovich

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

Christopher Hampton

The daily glitter of skyscrapers competing with the stars is an unnecessary, unforgivable decadence.

Stephen Hough

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

Oscar Wilde

I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business.

Fran Kranz

First of all, whoever didn’t want to be a member of this association or the other association, was branded, you know, like a dangerous individualist, you know, infected by the Western decadence, you know. So everybody joined.

Milos Forman

I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

Paul Verlaine

Decadence is wonderful.

Jack L Chalker

You gotta eat right, you gotta have healthy habits, you know, and balance out your decadence with a healthy lifestyle during the day.

Talib Kweli

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.

Benito Mussolini

‘Sunset Boulevard‘ – the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair – is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.

Manny Farber

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

David Sarnoff

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

Ernest Hemingway

Civilizations are built by the ceaseless toil of a succession of generations. With softness and sloth, civilizations succumb. Let us beware of decadence.

Rajiv Gandhi

Top 20 Decadence Quotes

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