Quotes About Excess

Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.

I am sure the Americans can fix nothing without a drink. If you meet, you drink; if you part, you drink; if you make acquaintance, you drink…. They commence it early in life, and they continue it, until they drop into the grave.

The visual is essentially pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt, mindless fascination; thinking about its attributes becomes an adjunct to that, if it is unwilling to betray its object; while the most austere films necessarily draw their energy from the attempt to repress their own excess (rather than from the more thankless effort to discipline the viewer).

It is impossible to overdo luxury

Only super-rich folk built fancy doors. You needed money coming out your ears before you spent it on a door.

for as long as he had lived, everything had been provided for him. Answers to his questions, entertainment to sate his whims. Almost by accident, he had become a glutton.

Esu sur?k?s tiek daug cigare?i?, kad suguldžius ? linij? j? užtekt? nuo Stokholmo centro iki Siodertelj?s. Maždaug nuo Butšiurkos cigaret?s jau su filtru, bet nuo to ne k? geriau.

Greed knows no bounds when it sinks its claws into people. – Rydberg

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.

The luxuriously rich are not simply kept comfortably warm, but unnaturally hot; as I implied before, they are cooked, of course _à la mode_.

Der Mensch behauptet, viel zu wissen; Doch seht nur, wie sie überschießen, Die Künste und die Wissenschaften, Die tausend Errungenschaften; Der Wind, der weht, Ist alles, was er versteht.

men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries;

Lidé dospÄ›li tak daleko, že ?asto strádají ne z nedostatku vÄ›cí potÃ…â"¢ebných, nýbrž z nedostatku vÄ›cí nadbyte?ných.

but doth not the person who expends vast sums in the furniture of his house or the ornaments of his person, who consumes much time and employs great pains in dressing himself, or who thinks himself paid for self-denial, labour, or even villany, by a title or a ribbon, sacrifice as much to vanity as the poor wit who is desirous to read you his poem or his play?

And much addicted to speaking the truth. In her younger years she was a good deal of a romp, and, though it is an awkward confession to make about one's heroine, I must add that she was something of a glutton.

It's a wonderful thing, for half an hour, to have money in your pocket and piss it away like a drunken sailor. You feel as though the world is yours. And the best part of it is, you don't know what to do with it.

Whoever, through too great love, which is monstrous after all, dies of his misery, is born again to know neither love nor hate, but to enjoy. And this joy of living, because it is unnaturally acquired, is a poison which eventually vitiates the whole world. Whatever is created beyond the normal limits of human suffering, acts as a boomerang and brings about destruction.

Cussed fellow-critters! Kick up de damndest row as ever you can; fill your dam bellies 'till dey bust - and den die

Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.

Never surrender to you're passions. Dream and live to excess.

The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.

It's a mystery to me; We have a greed, with which we have agreed. You think you have to want more than you need. Until you have it all, you won't be free.

We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough.

We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.