Quotes About Excess

I carried away much wine, and the wine had previously carried away my memory; so that all was hiccup and happiness for the last hour or so...

Man drinks wine, then wine drinks wine, then wine drinks man.

Wine has drowned more men than the sea.

If you need 144 rolls of toilet paper for a 14-day quarantine you probably should've been seeing a doctor long before COVID-19.

Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.

One time we had the whole world in our hands, but we ate it and burned it and it's gone now.

In een paroxysme van kleuren ging de hemel zich inmiddels te buiten aan een zonsondergang, zoals die in Europa alleen door een krankzinnige belichtingstechnicus verzonnen kon worden, waarop onmiddelijk ontslag zou volgen

The immoderate cannot laugh moderately.

A man will part with anything so long as he's drunk, and you're drunk with him.

Greed puts out the sun.

There is nothing particularly wrong with salmon, of course, but like caramel candy, strawberry yogurt, or liquid carpet cleaner, if you eat too much of it you are not going to enjoy your meal.

For one thing, the penthouse was simply too big. Besides the seventy-one bedrooms, there were a number of living rooms, dining rooms, breakfast rooms, snack rooms, sitting rooms, standing rooms, ballrooms, bathrooms, kitchens, and an assortment of rooms that seem to have no purpose at all.

El salmón no tiene nada de malo, claro está, pero al igual que las golosinas, el yogur de fresa y el limpiaalfombras líquido, si se come en exceso no se disfruta.

There was an open bottle of champagne in the ice bucket, and already the level was down as far as the label. 'Are we celebrating something?' I asked as I took off my coat and hung it in the hall. 'Don't be so bloody bourgeois,' said Tessa, handing me a champagne flute filled right to the brim. That was one of the problems of marrying into wealth; there were no luxuries.

Neither was this the ordinary world of supply and demand; it was a world of abundance.

Jaschwin, ein Spieler und ein Trunkenbold, ein völlig grundsatzloser Mensch ohne Moral, war im Regiment Wronskijs bester Freund. Er mochte ihn wegen seiner unwahrscheinlichen körperlichen Konstitution, die sich hauptsächlich darin ausdrückte, daß er wie ein bodenloses Fass saufen und auf Schlaf verzichten konnte, ohne daß man ihm nur das geringste anmerkte.

They got stuff here that I didn't even know existed. Everything's spandex and sequins. It's a retired ho's dream come true.

Poppies bleed petals of sheer excess. You and I, this sweet battle ground.

There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

I bought a pair of Carpe Diem boots, which were completely unnecessary and hideously expensive, but they make me feel quite fine and dandy.

The daily glitter of skyscrapers competing with the stars is an unnecessary, unforgivable decadence.

My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary material goods and bizarre generosity with family, friends and even strangers.

I cannot stand watching daily soaps that have a lot of rona-dhona and unrealistic drama in them.