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Quotes About Indulgence

That looks so delicious. My people would never let me have something like that. But maybe you will!
~ Ellen Miles
I spent most of my dough on booze, broads and boats and the rest I wasted.
~ Elmore Leonard
I don't want Christmas season to end, because it's the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.
~ Eloisa James
Oh, I have felt lust. And I've indulged lust. But no other woman has turned me into another person.
~ Eloisa James
chaise longue and slowly pulled on a stocking. Her body twinged
~ Eloisa James
Birthday Soup is good to eat, but not as good as Birthday Cake.
~ Else Holmelund Minarik
No drugs, except maybe poppers.
~ Elton John
I know this is more than I need, and that I'm harming myself by having it, but I love the pleasure of this experience more than I love the pleasure of doing what pleases the Lord, so I'm just going to go ahead and satiate myself.
~ Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
It is easier to get on with vices than with virtues. The vices, accommodating by nature, help each other, are full of mutual indulgence, whereas the jealous virtues combat and annihilate each other, showing in everything their incompatibility and their intolerence
~ Emil Cioran
In my early youth - he would later write to his friend, the philosopher Constantin Noica- seduced me solely the libraries and the brothels.
~ Emil Cioran
Dac-ai avea curajul s?-?i exprimi dorin?a cea mai secret?, ai spune: A? vrea s? fi inventat toate viciile." <3
~ Emil Cioran
Perdoa-se tudo, contanto que você tenha uma profissão, um subtítulo sob seu nome, um selo sobre seu nada. Ninguém tem a audácia de gritar: "Não quero fazer nada!"; se é mais indulgente com um assassino do que com um espírito liberado dos atos. Multiplicando as possibilidades de submeter-se, abdicando de sua liberdade, matando em si mesmo o vagabundo, foi assim que o homem refinou sua escravidão e submeteu-se aos fantasmas.
~ Emil M. Cioran
Desserts are the rich sweetness that makes the mundane chore of obtaining sustenance bearable.
~ Emily Evans
After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers.
~ Emily Luchetti
If the God of goodness and indulgence who hovers over the worlds does not make a second washing of the human race, it is doubtless because so little success attended the first.
~ balzac honore de xiii
You should let your wife recline all day long on soft armchairs, in which she sinks into a veritable bath of eiderdown or feathers; you should encourage in every way that does no violence to your conscience, the inclination which women have to breathe no other air but the scented atmosphere of a chamber seldom opened, where daylight can scarcely enter through the soft, transparent curtains.
~ balzac honore de xxiii
There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
~ balzac honore de xxiv
Why is it that everything I eat when I'm with you is so delicious?' I laughed. 'Could it be that you're satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?
~ Banana Yoshimoto
Being frugal is well and good, but I think it's important to do this kind of thing, maybe, oh, once every six months or so.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto.
~ Barbara Bretton
Human beings have a hard time regarding anything beautiful without wanting to devour it.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
People ask me: why do you write about food, and eating and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way the others do? The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry. —M. F. K. Fisher
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
Filling   1¾ cups plus 2 tablespoons chilled heavy whipping cream 3 tablespoons powdered sugar 2 teaspoons framboise (clear raspberry brandy; optional) ¾ teaspoon vanilla extract 2 cups fresh raspberries or frozen unsweetened raspberries, thawed, drained Additional fresh raspberries (optional)
~ Barbara Fairchild
Too late for coffee, too early for drink -though when was it ever too early for a glass of Tio Pepe, slightly chilled?
~ Barbara Pym