Quotes About Gluttony

I once ate McDonald's three times in one day.

Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.

I used to eat a lot of pasta and cookies, things like that. I really eat a lot. I'd eat everything if you let me.

My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize laziness, and people identify with that.

Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more. —JOHN UPDIKE, The Witches of Eastwick

Yossarian gorged himself in the mess hall until he thought he would explode and then sagged back in a contented stupor, his mouth filmy with a succulent residue.

Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is coated with holiness. May I ask for a specific example? Fat priests, Royce replied, with fat purses, who lecture staving peasants on the dangers of gluttony and the merits of poverty.

Randall went through two whole loaves of bread in one day

I can't get them in as well, you greedy little bastard.

I love apple pie. If I see one, I'm going to eat the whole thing.

I miss being able to pig out sometimes.

Those men ate like food had just been invented

I will eat everything. Cheese. Mac and cheese. Anything and cheese. I love that stuff.

The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the greediest.

A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed.

... man is eating the earth up like a candy bar.

The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination,whose vast abdomens betray them.

Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.

O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.

Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.

Nature punishes gluttony, not avarice or hate.

Of all the human emotions, curiosity is the one least subject to gluttony. Once engaged, it has a tendency to grow relentlessly until in the end the scholar becomes curious about the nature of revelation itself.

Let's just say you may regret that second piece of cake. Oh my God. Regret cake? Whatever was about to happen must be truly evil.

Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.