Quotes About Gluttony

The table quite literally groaned under its weight of roasted game

They are all but stomachs, and we all but food. To eat us hungerly, and when they are full, They belch us.

One piece of pie is delicious. Fourteen pieces are obviously nauseating.

Wolsey and Henry VIII, it has to be said, were not exceptional in their love of the table. The English of Tudor times had a reputation throughout Europe for gluttony. Indeed, overeating was regarded as the English vice in the same way that lust was the French one and drunkenness that of the Germans (although looking at the amount of alcohol consumed in England, I expect the English probably ran a close second to the Germans).

He had eaten as much as a travelling actor and drunk like the sands of the desert" Maxence Gilet

the new consumerism promoted all the deadly sins (lust, covetousness, gluttony, pride, envy) except perhaps anger and sloth.

I have too Many Cookies? what do you think?

I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs I own, and I have gluttony for all types and colours of music.

The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.

When in doubt, pig out!

The belly will not listen to advice.

No one can be a humbug for five-and-twenty years. Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.

Christmas is a good excuse to eat everything.

I'm a big eater.

They hungered after gold like pigs.

Olivier was holding a tray of mille feuilles, meringues, slices of pies and little custard tarts with glazed fruit on top. He chose one covered in tiny wild blueberries.

Nothing I ever gave was good for you,' quoted Gamache. 'It was like white bread to a goldfish.' Beside him Ruth Zardo stiffened, then in a low growl she finished her own poem. 'They cram and cram, and it kills them, and they drift in the pool, belly up, making stunned faces and playing on our guilt as if their own toxic gluttony was not their fault.

Ela é gorda, bela, voraz, gulosa, indecisa e lambuzona.

Eating in excess is a sin.

On the surface it appears that all we're talking about is food and the amount we consume. In reality, there is a more serious issue at the root of gluttony. Overstuffing ourselves with food or drinking until we get drunk or

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.

All surfeit is the father of much fast.