Quotes About Indulgence

Ivrogne tant que tu le voudras ; tant pis pour ceux qui craignent le vin, c'est qu'ils ont quelque mauvaise pensée qu'ils craignent que le vin ne leur tire du cœur... Tous les méchants sont buveurs d'eau, C'est bien prouvé par le déluge.

Ah, Caderousse,' said Andrea, 'how covetous you are! Two months ago you were dying with hunger.' 'The appetite grows by what it feeds on,' said Caderousse.

There was the taste of a strand of cool pearls in his mouth

They were of the female persuasion and richly endowed with vice.

Some films are slices of life, mine are slices of cake

Never Get Lost Oatmeal Cookies, great for hikes or adventures. Orange You Glad Cake, an orange loaf with buttercream icing, certain to cheer up the day. Sin No More Cinnamon Rolls, delicious and sticky, good for both the well behaved and the unruly.

Tonight the special was chicken pot pie, but most of the regulars were concentrating on whiskey.

When he took her home he ran the bath, which he had scrubbed clean---not an easy task---and they got into the tub together and drank strawberry milkshakes.

Her attitude towards sex is very comforting to those of her friends who get into terrible states of passion and jealousy, and feel cut loose from their moorings. She seems to regard sex as a wholesome, slightly silly indulgence, like dancing and nice dinners--something that shouldn't interfere with people's being kind and cheerful to each other.

caramel Camelot.

She was in the downstairs bathroom sneaking bites from the macaroons my father's firm always sent us for Christmas. She ate them greedily they were like suns bursting open in her mouth.

I devour books the way gluttons gobble their food.

Jess herself had not eaten fowl or roast or even fish in years, but the books awakened memories of turkey and thick gravy, and crab cakes, and rib-eye roasts. Redolent of smoke and flame, the recipes repelled and also reminded her of pink and tender meat, and breaking open lobster dripping with sweet butter, and sucking marrow out of the bones.

These cigarettes are the equivalent of wearing tight shoes to get the pleasure of taking them off.

with dreams, with drugs, with waking nightmares, alcohol and cock and endless balls

Steak swallowers zonked on Television!

Number of empty Ben & Jerry's containers: 3 -- two mint chocolate cookie, one plain vanilla. (Who buys plain vanilla ice cream from Ben & Jerry's, anyway? Is there a greater waste?)

ABSTAINER, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Oyster, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails!

ALCOHOL, n. (Arabic al kohl, a paint for the eyes.) The essential principle of all.

ABSTAINER, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

Abstemio, s. Persona de carácter débil, que cede a la tentación de negarse un placer. Abstemio total es el que se abstiene de todo, menos de la abstención; en especial, se abstiene de no meterse en los asuntos ajenos.

He's living in a dream! Pandered to, and coddled, and utterly spoiled his whole life! That boy and the real world are entire strangers to one another!

Ever think maybe you drink too much?" asked Wonderful. Clover smacked his lips. "Too much would, by definition, be too much. I find however much I drink is just the right amount.