Quotes About Self-indulgence

Mitrofanii frowned—he found women's tears hard to bear, especially if they were not shed out of self-indulgence but for some substantial reason, as now.

I always like it when I eat myself out of breath. That's a good boost to my day. You know, I'm eating, and I go, 'Oooohhh.' It's better a few moments later when you get to think about it, when you're like, 'Why did I just stop to take a deep breath? Oh yeah, my body also needs air.'

After being signed I bought Invisalign and Louis Vuitton Archlight trainers. I remember not being able to believe that I was able to spend that much money on trainers, but they were a present to myself and I still have them.

I allow myself one nice car.

Aquí quiere vivir por sí misma, sin estorbos; no ser otra cosa sino la mujer joven, desmesuradamente adulada y adorada, que, en medio de mil superfluas ocupaciones, se olvida de todo, del reino, del esposo, de la corte, del tiempo, y a veces -y éstos son acaso sus minutos más dichosos- hasta de sí misma. Con Trianón, este espíritu desocupado ha encontrado por fin una ocupación, un juego, que se renueva constantemente.

On the other hand, a flaccid, moping, debauched mollusc, tired from too much love and loose-nerved from general world conditions, can be a shameful thing served raw upon the shell.

The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.

Even she agreed that a woman had a right to chocolate.

I love jelly gummy lollies, liquorice, ice-cream and I eat my own ice-cream; I take it home from work.

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.

It is hard to bear with people who stand still along the way, lose heart, and seek their happiness in little pleasures which they cling to...You feel sad about all that self-indulgence and self-satisfaction, for you know with an indestructible certainty that something greater is coming.

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?

When one spends what he has on himselef, when one has a thoroughly good time with his own money, people are apt to say he doesn't know what to do with his money.

Self-indulgence is something to watch, but anything that helps you understand situations that are difficult to understand is good. If you're having some sort of emotional trauma, you need to find a person to talk to about it who says, 'This is quite normal; it's fine.'

I'll treat myself every now and then. Like if I get $100,000, I'll spend $20,000 and put the rest away.

I have to say, 'Pod' was a bon-bon, a treat to myself. A treat to write: a happy, pleasurable write.

When I'm injured, I eat everything - proper junk. That's the one thing about being injured so much, I get to treat myself.

You are affluent when you buy what you want, do what you wish and don't give a thought to what it costs.

I'm the frosting on America's cake, and tonight I'm willing to let you lick the bowl.

I take smack because I enjoy it. I enjoy all it makes me feel. I don't do it to be in with the in crowd. I can rock out with it.

I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson Daly can't go out and get messed up, he can't smoke in front of kids - he's the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can.

One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider this an overbroad characterization, but to me every time we exercise self-criticism, every time we test our ideas against the outside world, we are doing science. When we are self-indulgent and uncritical, when we confuse hopes and facts, we slide into pseudoscience and superstition.

Come on, indulge yourself. You got nothing to lose that won't be lost.

Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.