Harry Cohn Quotes

Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.

Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions.

Decadence is wonderful.

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking.

Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did.

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

Most people think of Las Vegas, and they think of extravagance. But it's really a mix between fantasy and laziness.

I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled, and thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.

I was a millionaire twice over and half again before I was twenty-one. I stole every nickel of it and blew the bulk of the bundle on fine threads, gourmet foods, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, fine wheels, and other sensual goodies.

There's always going to be the market for people who are known to have led wild and crazy lives.

When you're famous and you're young then you go partying, and you go to all the parties and stuff, I wasn't into that.

It's fun to be debaucherous and the worst version of yourself.

If you can't eat it, drink it, smoke it, or snort it... then f*ck it!

When we started off, we wanted the girls, the cocaine, the fur coats. It wasn't like it was an act; it was almost like working-class people winning the pools. We went bananas.

Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors.

All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!

Fromage and coffee and cognac and no gods.

Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.

In the order named, these are the hardest to control - wine, women and song.

When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.