Quotes About Indulgence

I am all about the complicated ice cream. Ben & Jerry's is my go-to. I like as many things in there as possible.

I literally have a private jet on call at all times.

I'm not so much a shoe or bag person as jewelry, and I think it's because jewelry is like candy.

I enjoy the burger joint the same way I enjoy fancy meals.

Horrid Henry hated vacations. Henry's idea of a super vacation was sitting on the sofa eating chips and watching TV.

I'm starving, thought Horrid Henry. I'll just eat a few biscuits really, really, really quietly—

Vanity makes us do more things against inclination than reason.

People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.

I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they're either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live.

There was nothing like a martini to blunt the day and polish the night.

I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they're either allergic to avocado or to joyless to live.

The buying of a whole bottle does not require that you drink the whole bottle. Mother's Rule of eating everything on your plate does not apply to alcohol.

There's too much lime in the world and not enough gin

oh god it's so wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much

There's too much lime in the world and not enough gin. —Frank O'Hara, from "Poem," The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara . (University of California Press March 31, 1995)

One group of senior directors took an extravagant junket to Uruguay to kill doves. They especially loved killing doves. Why? It couldn't have been the challenge. The group paid a Uruguayan farmer who had thousands of doves on his property to allow them to shoot there. One of the managers told me the air was so thick with doves that the hunting resembled a scene from Alfred Hitchcock's movie The Birds.

Ernest. Oh, I can't eat any more. Hans. Just this shining muscatelle! Ernest. My elasticity has its limit.

An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.

Actually, it would be assumed that the young lady had no such impulses at all, but I'll tell you something: Chocolate melts on my tongue too.

Books are a narcotic.

Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.

It is impossible to overdo luxury

Satisfying needs is the burden of the poor. The wealthy and the powerful can afford to indulge their wants and whims.

everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward.