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The Irish Duke' is a sequel to 'The Decadent Duke' about Lady Georgina Gordon who married the Duke of Bedford. 'The Irish Duke' tells the story of their daughter, Lady Louisa, who married James Hamilton, the powerful and wealthy Duke of Abercorn. -- Virginia Henley
Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions. -- H. Rap Brown
Los Angeles, I don't like that town. Too decadent, and it's slimy. -- Layne Staley
If me and my friends are feeling decadent, we go for afternoon tea. -- Sophie McShera
Sultan Beyazid considered his father's art collection decadent and ordered it sold at auction. -- Stephen Kinzer
There's something fabulously decadent about staying in a hotel across the street from where you live. -- Marley Shelton
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To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way. -- Christian Louboutin
I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite. -- Ellen Willis
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 am a communist and a worker, and I have lived in a decadent capitalist society where the workers are slaves. -- Lee Harvey Oswald
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
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
The millennial generation in the US is the first that has reduced expectations from those of their parents. And I think there is something decadent and declinist about that. -- Peter Thiel
I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and no one thought anything about it. -- Robert Mapplethorpe
When I got my success, I became decadent for a while. This was 2003 to 2008. I fell for tiramisu really hard. I've become more moderate since, because African-Americans are prone to diabetes. -- Jill Scott
Once you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it's all the same. I don't have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle. -- Renee Zellweger
We use fashion for status and to beautify and there's nothing wrong with that, but when it becomes completely unbalanced, then you're living a decadent life. And when that happens on a global scale, you're living in a decadent world. -- David LaChapelle
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
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. -- Gore Vidal
The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods. -- John Maynard Keynes
I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with. And there's something wildy decadent about the young-star lifestyle, and I just don't really see the point. -- Anne Hathaway
I love to bake! I have a huge sweet tooth, and I love to make things like zucchini muffins, you know, anything decadent like that. And I stand by the claim that chocolate can be good for you! I love having a good piece of dark chocolate, one that's 70 percent or more cacao. -- Lauren Bowles
I like to focus on making the music sound simple and true, and very lush and full. I think music should take you to somewhere else where you have the space to contemplate or exercise your imagination. All the while you should be feeling real good, like when you have a delicious and decadent meal, macaroni and cheese or foie gras. -- Alice Smith
Finished products are for decadent minds. -- Isaac Asimov
JUST LIKE CANDY is a delicious, decadent treat. -- Cheyenne McCray
The bigger the headquarters the more decadent the company. -- James Goldsmith
Be it ever so decadent, there's no place like home. -- Tom Lehrer
I like this word decadent; all shimmering and purple and gold. -- Paul Verlaine
When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent. -- Jacques Barzun
...of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant. -- Yukio Mishima
A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect. -- Emile M. Cioran
There's no such thing, of course, as an old-fashioned gay guy. They're the most decadent people. -- Norm MacDonald
Societies who do not care for their young people and old people are decadent, decaying societies. -- Suzan Shown Harjo
Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters -- Saul Bellow
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action... -- Gore Vidal
Europe is like the Roman Empire - indulged, decadent, flooded with immigrants and unprepared to fight for its culture. -- Filip Dewinter
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
Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters. -- Kenneth Rexroth
Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them. -- Emile Durkheim
Everyone in a decadent society, Lorrain urges, is guilty. Everyone loves masking murder and everyone takes masochistic pleasure in the risk of discovery and punishment. -- Jennifer Birkett
The terrorists believe that free societies are essentially corrupt and decadent and, with a few hard blows, they can force us to retreat. They are mistaken. --
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
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
Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow in it. -- Brooks Atkinson
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
Certainly within any decadent period, you would probably find the purest expressions of conviction, and I do not see that in many of the people I know. -- Leonard Cohen
The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate. -- Antonin Artaud
Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors. -- Jack Kerouac
I believe that eating simple food in a healthy body with a clean conscience is more pleasurable, and infinitely more satisfying, then eating decadent food that makes you and your world ill. -- John Robbins
Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization. -- Vernon Howard
Frontline love. It is our one hope for breaking down barriers and for restoring the sense of community, of caring for one another, that our decadent, impersonalized culture has sucked out of us. -- Charles Colson
A Christian Anarchist does not depend on bullets or ballots to achieve his ideal; he achieves that ideal daily by the One Man Revolution with which he faces a decadent, confused and dying world. -- Ammon Hennacy
We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither. -- Calvin Coolidge

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