Decline

Explore 4 quotes about Decline

Sort

We used to make shit in this country, build shit. Now we just put our hand in the next guy’s pocket.

Frank Sobotka

There are no other quotes by this person in the Bon Mots database.

The Wire

Watch Season 2 of The Wire at Amazon Watch Season 2 of The Wire at Amazon

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Actor

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

"Bad Dreams." The Wire, written by David Simon and George Pelecanos and Joy Kecken, directed by Ernest R. Dickerson, season 2, episode 11, Blown Deadline Productions and Home Box Office, 2003.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

Our fathers' age was worse than our grandfathers'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.

Horace

Buy the Odes at Amazon Buy the Odes at Amazon

Read the Odes at Project Gutenberg

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Era

Authentication Score 2

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 3, no. 6.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 3, no. 6.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

Oh this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is!

Catullus

Carmina

Buy The Poems of Catullus at Amazon Buy The Poems of Catullus at Amazon

Read Carmina at Project Gutenberg

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Statement Type

Language

Time

Era

Authentication Score 2

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Catullus, Gaius Valerius. Carmina. c. 1481, no. 43, l. 8.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Cattulus, Gaius Valerius. The Poems of Catullus, translated by Guy Lee. Oxford University Press, 2009, no. 43, l. 8.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.

David Lloyd George

Quoted in Observer

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 1

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

George, David Lloyd. The Observer. 8 Jan. 1933.

Citation text copied to clipboard.