The Age of Decadence Quotes

“The obsession with show; the importance of the pose; the decline of the spiritual and the rise of the material; an undue concentration of wealth among a privileged few, many of whose new recruits lacked the philanthropic impulse of an earlier generation -- all these provided the stuff of the moral, intellectual and industrial that made this an age of decadence.”
― Simon Heffer, The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914