Quotes About Indulgence

I realized then that I didn't have to have women all the time, and that guilt is the weapon used by a muddled society to stop people having a good time. 'All the world loves a lover.' What crap! Even in the sexually liberated 'seventies young people still had to get pissed or high to do what they really wanted to do in the first place.

It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.

I flung myself into pleasure like a suicide on to a pavement.

Do you think it would be bad for me to have another glass? Vodka has never done anyone any harm.

chocolate sprinkles on rhubarb sauce over vanilla ice cream.

Even chitlins smell good to a starving man.

It was deliciously pagan.

What kind of person would have a real craving for gummy worms?

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

The boom for luxury goods is unending. There are people who never have to worry about whether they can afford something they like. In one part of the world or another there will always be someone with money to spend on luxury.

I sometimes worry that by encouraging so many more people to try their hand at baking through 'The Great British Bake Off,' I'm going to find myself in court one day charged with accelerating the national epidemic of obesity! To which I will plead not guilty. A slice of Victoria sandwich is never going to harm anyone.

The greatest luxury now in being reasonably well-off - overlooking the Ferrari and the aeroplane - is that I can always go for a curry without worrying if I can afford it.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

I worship scones and danishes. If I never had another meal, I wouldn't care as long as I could eat pastries and jelly doughnuts.

Religion is many things, but one of them, surely, is a way for adults to indulge in uncritical hero worship.

No matter how bad your day is, when you start talking about cookies or cakes or pies, or you bring someone cookies, there's just not bad news. The worst news is, 'Hey, there's sugar in that.'

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

I have the worst sweet tooth on the planet.

I had the worst habits that you could imagine. Pizza, burgers, even a little bit of sweets.

I say, 'Is it really worth the calories?' If it is, I eat it. If not, I refrain.

I know that a lot of my life is spent thinking about crisps and eating crisps and hating myself for eating crisps. It's just not worth it. Or it wouldn't be if crisps weren't so delicious.

L'Oreal's slogan 'because you're worth it' has come to epitomise banal narcissism of early 21st century capitalism; easy indulgence and effortless self-love all available at a flick of the credit card.

I often buy things, feel a little guilty, but then think that it's so worth it.

If I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me pleasure.