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Quotes About Indulgence

Dans leurs regards indifférents flottait la quiétude de passions journellement assouvies ; et, à travers leurs manières douces, perçait cette brutalité particulière que communique la domination de choses à demi faciles, dans lesquelles la force s'exerce et où la vanité s'amuse, le maniement des chevaux de race et la société des femmes perdues.
~ Gustave Flaubert
First he anointed her eyes, once so covetous of all earthly luxuries; then her nostrils, so gluttonous of caressing breezes and amorous scents; then her mouth, so prompt to lie, so defiant in pride, so loud in lust; then her hands that had thrilled to voluptuous contacts; and finally the soles of her feet, once so swift when she had hastened to slake her desires, and now never to walk again.
~ Gustave Flaubert
De toutes les passions, la seule vraiment respectable me paraît être la gourmandise.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Of the small number of things which I have liked and done well, drinking is by far the thing I have done best. Although I have read a lot, I have drunk more. I have written much less than most people who write; but I have drunk more than the majority of the people who drink.
~ Guy Debord
Every morning Mrs Eglantine sat at the round bamboo bar of the New Pacific Hotel and drank her breakfast. This consisted of two quick large brandies, followed by several slower ones. By noon breakfast had become lunch and by two o'clock the pouches under and above Mrs Eglantine's bleared blue eyes began to look like large puffed pink prawns.
~ H.E. Bates
function—thoughtless, careless, and liquorish
~ H.P. Lovecraft
In chili's hand were his car keys, Ray-bans and Marlboros, without which he wouldn't leave his bathroom. Chili drank only black coffee and neat Jack Daniel's; his suits were Boss, his underwear Calvin Klein, his actor Pacino. His barber shook his hand, his accountant took him to dinner, his drug dealer would come to him at all hours and accept his checks.
~ Hanif Kureishi
The truth is,everything we really desire is either forbidden,immoral or unhealthy, and if you're lucky, all three at once.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Nije li erotika neutaziva glad koja samu sebe pothranjuje?
~ Hanif Kureishi
Whoever thought that pleasure makes you happy?
~ Hanif Kureishi
Now, if we only had as many casks of butter as there are people here, then I would eat lots of butter!
~ Hans Christian Andersen
The first sip of beer on a hot day is like that first finger-dip when you open a new jar of peanut butter.
~ Harlan Coben
I shall drink no wine before its time. Okay, it's time.
~ Harlan Coben
Cheeseburger medium rare, fries, a Bud." "You want an angiogram after that?" "Good
~ Harlan Coben
If a man had enough to eat, he'd want to grow a second mouth.' He also had a dirty way of saying it, but I won't repeat it here." Kat
~ Harlan Coben
Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is extraordinary - hearing, touch. I find people who devote their whole lives to taste a little strange.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
After a tough day, I go eat some steak and potatoes and take a shower.
~ Adrien Broner
Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves.
~ Cynthia Voigt
I have a sweet tooth problem. On tour, in catering, the dessert was always so good. When we started the tour I was in the best shape of my life, but by the end of it I was horrible.
~ Kevin McHale
Indian food is a luxury on tour.
~ Mahesh Bhupathi
That's always my downfall on tour: the food. I just want to eat everything.
~ King Tuff
I try to cover three food groups at breakfast. I see that as a licence to eat rubbish for the rest of the day. Touring equals a lot of sandwiches.
~ Sarah Millican
When you're on book tours, you definitely need chocolate. At all times.
~ Lisa Gardner
After a bath, we all love to dry off with a towel. But do we need it to survive? No. It's a luxury.
~ Victoria Coren Mitchell