Quotes About Indulgence

I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind , a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!

Cook had made us a big veal-and-ham pie and a potato salad, with a fruit tart and the remains of the Christmas cake for dessert. The children got crumbs all over their clothes.

Dad bought us food from every single stall on the pier – lemon pancakes and doughnuts oozing jam and salty chips and fluffy candyfloss and 99 ice creams, just as he promised.

Indigence and indulgence are the two extremes of wretchedness. They are both equally unnatural and the result of mental disorder. A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer, of the man with his surroundings.

Chocolate releases phenylephylamine, the same hormone that is released when you fall in love.

This is not to say you should eat chocolate all the time. You'll get obese. It's much better to just simply fall in love.

When you have bacon in your mouth, it doesn't matter who's president.

Yves did not like showers, he preferred long, scalding baths, with newspapers, cigarettes, and whiskey on a chair next to the bathtub, and with Eric nearby to talk to, to shampoo his hair, and to scrub his back.

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.

Well, when in Rome, said Jurgen, one must be romantic.

Damn what you like, Pieterzoon. But don't damn liquor. It's the stuff of life!

It's good for a man to get drunk once in a while. It releases all the evil spirits.

It's the brandy, Pilot, that an' fornication an' the saintly life I've led.

1:52 a.m. His favorite nightcap—coffee and Benzedrine.

With a free afternoon, I'd probably put on a onesie, find something like a really dark, uncomfortable documentary on Netflix, and order pizza with a lot of ranch on the side.

There's nothing pretty about competitive eating. It might be uncouth, but it is fun, and it is lighthearted.

I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.

I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder.

I'm an addict for underwear.

First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.

A great spa session followed by fine dining followed by passionate love-making is undoubtedly an ideal date plan.

I unfortunately still crave chicken McNuggets and bacon, which is the meat candy of the world.

Where else can we find happiness for a day other than from something that can offer momentary relief, something like the booze?

All worries are less with wine.