Quotes About Indulgence

dulce de leche

Etelvina had made a meringue pie, which our guest accepted a second piece of without concern for the calories; that detail ended up convincing me that she was the ideal girl for my grandson: I like people who can get happily fat.

manjar blanco, also called dulce de leche, a kind of blancmange

En mi caso, sin embargo, el crepúsculo me induce a pecar [...] Me arrepiento de las dietas, de los platos deliciosos rechazados por vanidad, tanto como lamento las ocasiones de hacer el amor que he dejado pasar por ocuparme de tareas pendientes o por virtud puritana.

No puedo separar el erotismo de la comida y no veo razón para hacerlo, al contrario, pretendo seguir disfrutando de ambos mientras las fuerzas y el buen humor me alcancen.

Para levantar el ánimo, nada mejor que un capuccino doble inyectado en la vena y una medialuna olorosa, que alivian temporalmente el susto.

Los afrodisíacos son el puente entre gula y lujuria. En un mundo perfecto, supongo que cualquier alimento natural, sano, fresco, atractivo a la vista, sabroso y liviano —es decir, las mismas virtudes que uno desea en su pareja.

The road of gluttony leads straight to lust and, if traveled a little farther, to the loss of one's soul.

The zeitgeist tells us that we 'should' prefer dark chocolate much the same as we should prefer wine, coffee, and whiskey with flavor profiles that run toward the extreme. But sometimes I just want to eat something accessible and enjoyable without embarking on a cerebral tasting exercise.

I would say there are some foods that I strongly recommend that you do not eat. No. 1 on that list, I believe, is doughnuts. Comfort food. Zero value. Don't eat them.

Size zero doesn't make you happy, and I'm not sure I have the discipline for Hollywood. I'm too much of a fan of chocolate and crisps.

I have zero morals about television. I just want to be entertained.

The only exercise I got as a kid was fork to mouth. Food was equated with love in my household. I thought you left the table when the zipper was down and you'd explode if you took another bite. I'd eat my plate and then everyone else's leftovers.

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

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

Abstainer: a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization.

You cannot have your cake and eat it.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

He who drinks a little too much drinks much too much.

I am only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.

I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.