Quotes About Indulgence

Perfectly. I'm a terrific success at pottering round asking sloppy questions. And I can put away quite a lot of beer in a good cause.

A hangover is the wrath of grapes.

No matter what happens to society, I must maintain my supply of ice cream.

She felt faintly embarrassed by the sheer profusion of things she had for putting in baths, but she was for some reason incapable of passing any chemist's or herb shop without going in to be seduced by some glass-stoppered bottle of something blue or green or orange or oily that was supposed to restore the natural balance of some vague substance she didn't even know she was supposed to have in her pores.

If you wanted quick sex or a dirty fix or, God help you, a hamburger, that was where you went to get it. Here

He put some more cold pizza into his face.

If he was asked at this moment where he would like to be he would probably have said he would like to be lying on the beach with at least fifty beautiful women and a small team of experts working out new ways they could be nice to him, which was his usual reply. To this he would probably have added something passionate on the subject of food.

Ford had another Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the drink which has been described as the alcoholic equivalent of a mugging – expensive and bad for the head.

Their talk was endless, compulsive, and indulgent, sometimes sounding like the remains of the English language after having been hashed over by nuclear war survivors for a few hundred years.

Alas," murmured Poirot to his mustaches, "that one can only eat three times a day ...

Tea's a thing that need never be finished.

You arouse my gastronomical juices, madame.

An artist! An excuse for every kind of loose living, for drunkenness, for brawling, for infidelity.

And they had no idea that they and many others were automatically pronounced deadly dull solely on that account. Only by the young of course, but then, they would have thought indulgently, young people knew nothing about life. Poor dears, they were always worrying about examinations, or their sex life, or buying some extraordinary clothes, or doing some extraordinary things to their hair to make them more noticeable.

I don't feel as though I've got the heart to eat anything," and then partook of everything offered her,

One needs some really good food and drink after all the magnificent blood and gloom of Macbeth. Shakespeare always makes me ravenous

Every mortal luxury…

Like all men, he was a spoilt child; he expected everybody to make a fuss of him.

She wanted butter. She wanted lots of butter." "It's not just a question of butter,

kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.

There are some things in life where it's better to receive than to give, and massage is one of them.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

Whenever I feel the urge to exercise, I lie down and nap until the urge passes.

Now here's the thing about people who swear by routines. When they decide to break from the usual, they go big. The Greek salad is replaced by a large pepperoni pizza. The skipped day at the gym becomes a month of couch-potatoing.