Quotes About Indulgence

Wear that beautiful dress you had on when you first came to Clichy. I want to see the white of your flesh against it. I want to commit excesses.

It was a period of drunkenness, of blindness, of living only with the hands and mouth and body.

This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.

Exist? volupt??i neînsemnate care au fost pentru noi acre cum sunt poamele m?runte, de furat, de pe marginea drumurilor.

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

Her thighs are oiled and dark, and oblivion never felt as good as it does now

Watch TV or something. That's what the note says. So I say to myself, Fine. But I think I'll do the or something part.

Far more accurately than Jimmy Carter, Reagan understood what made Americans tick: They wanted self-gratification, not self-denial. Although always careful to embroider his speeches with inspirational homilies and testimonials to old-fashioned virtues, Reagan mainly indulged American self-indulgence.

Everything is more glamorous when you do it in bed anyway.

I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece. I don't even taste any of the other pieces, I just want to finish and throw the box away and not have to have it on my mind any more. I would rather either have it now or know I'll never have it so I don't have to think about it.

Why do we fight the things we fight when giving into them isn't so bad at all?

I want to have those little hot dogs wrapped in biscuit dough.

Never eat Oreo cream filling before bed. You'll wake up with a headache.

Crunch. Claudia Kishi was eating something sweet and chocolatey.

Claudia matched Nicky by eating three cupcakes.

a candy and soda machine (dinner!)

Pop, can we get ice cream when we're in Barnegat Point?" she asked. "I'm not made of money," Pop replied, which didn't mean either yes or no.

a person who commits each of these sins with abandon.

You can't get enough of your favorite meal until, in the next moment, you find you are so stuffed as to nearly require the attention of a surgeon—and yet, by some quirk of physics, you still have room for dessert.

a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.

Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence. ( Essay on Tea , 1757.)

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

How can palsied age, which is but a terrifying object to youth, expect the indulgence, the love, of the young and gay, if it does not study to promote those pleasures which itself was fond of in youth? Enjoy innocently your season, girls, once said she, setting half a score of us into country dances. I watch for the failure of my memory; and shall never give it over for quite lost, till I forget what were my own innocent wishes and delights in the days of my youth.