3 Best Decadence Quotes

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. – Lord Henry

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. – Dorian Gray

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. – Theodore Roosevelt