Quotes About Pleasure

Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.

After a full belly all is poetry.

Shape is a good part of the fig's delight.

Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.

It's okay to treat yourself once in awhile. I'm not going to stop eating Mexican food!

I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.

Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.

I'm a big buffet dude, or I'm a big cheap-food-and-order-more-when-I-need-it dude.

Food is my drug of choice.

She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.

A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one's accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.

The more obsessively we focus on what a particular food is going to do for us, the less healthy we've become. Simple pleasures become complicated.

I believe that eating simple food in a healthy body with a clean conscience is more pleasurable, and infinitely more satisfying, then eating decadent food that makes you and your world ill.

Drink wine every day, at lunch and dinner, and the rest will take care of itself.

Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink That is the finest of suppers, I think When I'm grown up and can have what I please, I think I shall always insist upon these.

If I'm a lush at anything, it's food and drink. I'm not materialistic in any way, but I value food.

I have been in Paris for almost a week and I have not heard anyone say calories, or cholesterol, or even arterial plaque. The French do not season their food with regret.

I eat whatever I want, junk food included.

I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.

All food is comfort food. Maybe I just like to chew.

I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting

A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills."