Top 11 Quotes About Siecle
#1. The fascinated loathing which he (Jean Lorrain) cultivated for the decadence of fin de siecle Paris has a good deal of envy and ardent desire in it; in the words of Hubert Juin, he 'loved his epoch to the point of detestation.'
(Introduction: "The Life And Career Of Jean Lorrain)
Francis Amery
#2. They sought each other, missed each other, at cocktail parties, in train terminals, at flower shops, their fin de siecle Nokias gaining symbolic power with each scene.
Sam Lipsyte
#3. Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle .
Eric Hobsbawm
#4. Eugenics has always been the escape valve of single payer socialized medicine. Havelock Ellis was writing about them as one and the same prior to the fin-de-siecle. Culling out of control population growth and the economic drain of the incurably sick has always been a part of socialized medicine.
A.E. Samaan
#5. We've fallen into a fin-de-siecle period of crisis in which people believe only the things they see right in front of them
Mariko Mori
#6. They prefer their meals alive and terrified, for fear is their favorite sauce.
Donald G. Firesmith
#7. You get better at working by working. And if you don't work, you're not getting better.
Terry Crews
#8. You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.
Nancy Grace
#9. People are constantly not feeling, but numbing themselves, either through medication or playing on their phones. If you start feeling bad, it's like, 'Distract! Distract! Put on Storage Wars!' And I know because I'm guilty of it, too.
Mary Lambert
#10. I used to ask myself, 'Sergei, would you rather spend your money on drink or women?' and thanks to the club, I spend it on both and am called a patron of the arts.
Melika Dannese Lux
#11. All farewells should be sudden, when forever.
Lord Byron
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