Quotes About Indulgence

Charity didn't mean to waste the entire afternoon. But her favorite daytime drama was on the telly. It was always the same, she thought, stretching out on the bed to watch. The sex got her interested first, and then the story. Before long she was totally hooked, and deep into the intricate plots and the glamorous goings-on. And afterwards, she just felt drained. She was sound asleep by the time Lady Margaret came home.

Dessert doesn't count if you're sharing someone else's.

Holidays were invented so single women could overeat without feeling guilty.

Charity couldn't bring herself to cry on Lady Beddington's shoulder -- not until after she'd mopped up a plate or two of spaghetti with buckets of cheap red wine.

His lips turned upward. "Man told you to lick salt off me, but he didn't say where you would be licking the salt from.

I get way too much happiness from good food.

Olive finished the doughnut, wiped the sugar from her fingers, sat back and said, "You're starving." The girl didn't move, only said, "Uh-duh." "I'm starving too," Olive said. The girl looked over at her. "I am," Olive said. "Why do you think I eat every doughnut in sight?" "You're not starving," Nina said in disgust. "Sure I am. We all are.

she was glad to see all the butter he used. It was his love for butter she was counting on, hoping that would do him in.

him. "Lost a little weight now we don't have our crackers and cheese every night. But I guess I look like hell." He would say that

And he drank, and the more he drank the more he longed to drink, because the wine was enchanted.

The Divine love is commonly regarded as a species of amiable weakness, a sort of good-natured indulgence; it is reduced to a mere sickly sentiment, patterned after human emotion.

algunos preferimos, supongo, los vicios que nos divierten a las virtudes que nos aburren.

Tengo planes más atractivos: mujeres, cigarrillos, restaurantes. Cosas así. De modo que, puestos a ello, es mejor que mueran otros. Entonces

Respecto al vino, decía el capitán que ya tendría tiempo en la vida de beber hasta reventar, si lo quisiera, y que para eso nunca se le hacía demasiado tarde a un hombre;

don't swill my best cognac. You must savour each drop." "Savour like you do a man".

I think I just ate my willpower.

My motto is - if it feels good -" he grinned as he held her gaze "- then I do it.

These chocolates made you close your eyes and moan and were right up there with sex. Well, not sex with Hud. Nothing could beat that.

The man of the modern world is used to speak what the modern world will hear; the writer of the modern world must write what that world will indulgently and pleasantly peruse.

L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.

I've never been a label-obsessed person. I indulge in shoes, but I rarely will ever buy full-price.

I eat meat, the rarer the better.

I'm not a big oyster eater. But I know people who will sit at a raw bar and eat oyster for two hours.

If I'm going to have something rich and yummy, I'm not reaching for prepackaged brownies. I'm going to make a pie from scratch.