People call us decadents-I suppose, because we prefer intellectual progression to physical activity.
"A Maker of History"
E. Phillips Oppenheim
O decadents of the town, we have seen your sham idyls, your tinsel Arcadias.
"The British Barbarians"
Grant Allen
"How do I know," she demanded, "that I am not one of the children of the cities, that I was not fashioned and made for the gas-lit life, to eat unreal food at unreal hours, and feed my brain upon the unreal epigrams of the men whom you would call decadents.
"Jeanne of the Marshes"
E. Phillips Oppenheim