Quotes About Indulgence

I feel for food more than I could crave a woman. And that's the truth!

Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth.

In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.

I enjoy reality as much as the next man. It's just that in my case, fortunately, reality includes a good stiff belt every now and then.

The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the other.

Toss back your coif and quaff, my querulous queen!

He ordered a slice of the house's excellent Sacher torte and a cup of coffee that was unusually drinkable for New York, and waited.

The rich kept you waiting so that you could feel free to admire all that they had.

All around them the cacophony of greed carried on in its most glorious and extreme excess.

We're all junkies. It's just different drugs. I wish I had yours, but I don't.

took him to a place where they poured honey on

then they had pollo con ajillo, chicken with garlic, and a bottle of portuguese red wine. my god, we're going to stink after this, angela said.

Chemically speaking, chocolate really is the world's perfect food.

I have a way of dealing with temptation. I just succumb and get it over with.

First, he though, I need shoes with rubber on the bottom. I need gelato.

Three flutes of champagne in the early afternoon anchored by the weight of nine oysters.

I said before that McDonald's serves a kind of comfort food, but after a few bites I'm more inclined to think they're selling something more schematic than that--something more like a signifier of comfort food. So you eat more and eat more quickly, hoping somehow to catch up to the original idea of a cheeseburger or French fry as it retreats over the horizon. And so it goes, bite after bite, until you feel not satisfied exactly, but simply, regrettably, full.

It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the act of consumption might be an act of addition rather than subtraction.

The bread was so powerfully aromatic that, had I been alone, I would have been tempted to push my face into it.

David] Wallerstein discovered that people would spring for more popcorn and soda- a lot more- as long as it came in a single gigantic serving. Thus was born the two-quart bucket of popcorn, the sixty-four-ounce Big Gulp, and, in time, the Big Mac and the jumbo fries.

For as you go on, you'll be getting more calories, but not necessarily more pleasure.

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

Indian junk food is my sin, even though I pretend to like Japanese.