The Decadent Lie Quotes & Sayings

It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I call it the "Fuck up, own up, and get up" policy. Make a mistake, admit it, and move on. We all screw up, but a man solves his problems. He doesn't make them worse. — Penelope Douglas

One stifling summer afternoon last August, in the attic of a tiny stone house in Pennsylvania, I made a most interesting discovery: the shortest, cheapest method of inducing a nervous breakdown ever perfected. In this technique ... , the subject is placed in a sharply sloping attic heated to 340 F and given a mothproof closet known as the Jiffy-Cloz to assemble. — S.J Perelman

Come on sweetheart
let's adore one another
before there is no more
of you and me — Rumi

ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity. — Ambrose Bierce

The Bible does not speak to all issues (for example, where did AIDS come from?), and science says little about doctrine (for example, is the doctrine of the Trinity true?), but it does not follow from this that there can be no overlap. Instead, Christian theists resolve the alleged conflict between science and faith by conceding that while the Bible is infallible, science and theology are not. Both disciplines are subject to correction by the other. — Scott Klusendorf

Stuart must have sensed my despair from the way I began lightly banging my forehead on the table. — Maureen Johnson

You often see shocks in the League Cup, even when you don't expect them — Jan Molby

The more you talk to cats ... the smarter they become. An occasional 'nice kitty' will have no measurable effect; intelligent conversation is required. — Lilian Jackson Braun

There is nothing quite so beautiful as the written word -worn as a jewel, adorning the segmented lines of papyrus". — Gerald Mills