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Quotes About Temptation

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.
~ Dolly Parton
Don't be fooled into turning to Communism looking for food.
~ Jomo Kenyatta
Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.
~ Alain Ducasse
An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach.
~ George du Maurier
You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!
~ M. F. K. Fisher
The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
~ Erma Bombeck
You wanna know how good bacon is? To improve other food, they wrap it in bacon.
~ Jim Gaffigan
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.
~ Frederic Raphael
After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers.
~ Emily Luchetti
And yes, we do have some food. Maybe you'd like to join us? Unless you want to stick with your sheep sushi.
~ Michael Grant, Lies
The 12-step chocolate program: NEVER BE MORE THAN 12 STEPS AWAY FROM CHOCOLATE!
~ Terry Moore
I'm pretty sure that eating chocolate keeps wrinkles away because I have never seen a 10 year old with a Hershey bar and crows feet.
~ Amy Neftzger
New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.
~ Mark Twain
Someone is putting brandy in your bonbons, Grand Marnier in your breakfast jam, Kahlua in your ice cream, Scotch in your mustard and Wild Turkey in your cake.
~ Marian Burros
Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas.
~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. Sooooo, let's all get drunk and go to heaven!
~ Unknown
I am not strict vegan, because I'm a hedonist pig. If I see a big chocolate cake that is made with eggs, I'll have it.
~ Grace Slick
One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away with you," I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.
~ Leonid Brezhnev
He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart
~ C. S. Lewis
You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?
~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
...it was so rich and exotic I was seduced into taking one bite and then another as I tried to chase the flavors back to their source.
~ Ruth Reichl
At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
~ Oliver Reed
Food is my drug of choice.
~ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.
~ Juvenal