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Quotes About Indulgence

I've sometimes imagined that if sin had a flavor, it might very well be bacon. It even tastes smoky, as if it emerged piping hot out of the fiery pans of hell.
~ George Takei
I've sometimes imagined that if sin had a flavor, it might very well be bacon. It even tastes smoky, as if it emerged piping hot out of the fiery pans of hell. More than any forbidden fruit, this delectable treat — best when crispy, the little grease bubbles still dancing happily on its crenelated edges — epitomizes things we know we shouldn't eat, but still crave and keep going back to. In short, it's food crack.
~ George Takei
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
~ George William Curtis
Our only real pleasure is to squander our resources to no purpose, just as if a wound were bleeding away inside us; we always want to be sure of the uselessness or the ruinousness of our extravagance.
~ Georges Bataille
Passer pour un idiot aux yeux d'un imbécile est une volupté de fin gourmet.
~ Georges Courteline
I thought of all the women on the Titanic who had refused dessert." Carrie's
~ Georgia Bockoven
It needs only a good bottle of wine for a roast chicken to be transformed into a banquet.
~ GERALD ASHER
It was my birthday. I lay there savouring the feeling of having a whole day to myself when people would give me presents and the family would be forced to accede to any reasonable requests.
~ Gerald Durrell
The meringues were large and white and brittle as coral and stuffed to overflowing with cream.
~ Gerald Durrell
Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.
~ Henry S. Haskins
He loves to eat - he puts mayonnaise on an aspirin.
~ Joan Rivers
I take him to McDonald's just to watch him eat and see the numbers change.
~ Joan Rivers
Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.
~ Giuseppe Garibaldi
I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the time he killed himself.
~ Johnny Carson
The only things that distinguish us from the rest of the animals, Madam is our habit of drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at any time.
~ Pierre Beaumarchais
An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
~ Plautus
Sweets are good for the nerves.
~ Margarete Bieber
Sir, when their backsides look good enough to slap, there's nothing more to do.
~ Peter Paul Rubens
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
~ Oscar Wilde
Wouldst thou both eat they cake and have it?
~ George Edward Herbert
Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.
~ Alexander Pope
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
~ Truman Capote
An indecent mind is a perpetual feast.
~ Old saying