Quotes About Indulgence

Everyone knows there are foods that are sexy to eat. What they don't talk about so much is foods that are sexy to make.

The powdered sugar had caramelized and blackened into a sucking tar pit in which my ladyfingers languished like so many sunk mastadons.

The crunch of the mustard-spiked crust somehow brings the unctuous smooth richness of the liver into sharp relief. It's like the silky soul of steak. You have to close your eyes, let the meat melt on your tongue, into your corpuscles.

We ate it sitting on the couch, bowls perched on knees, the silence broken only by the occasional snort of laughter as we watched a pert blonde high school student dust vampires on the television. In almost no time we were slurping the dregs of our third servings. (it turns out that one reason we're so good together is that each of us eats more and faster than anyone either of us has ever met; also, we both recognize the genius of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.)

Her eyes, nose, hands, feet... Each part was a supreme delicacy, and I was insatiable.

What is the difference between freedom and hedonism? Between freedom and insanity?

I sat down to a lavish meal of Irish stew, boiled salad with beets, celery, potatoes doused in cream sauce, haddock and rice, and a long cheeseboard piled with pungent varieties and tasty rolls. I ate with fiendish voraciousness, and slowly, my hunger subsided and my nerves calmed.

you savor the things we seek to avoid.

Nothing goes better with a good book than a cup of hot tea and a scone.

treatment. You know, champagne, caviar

She had told herself when she put on her sweatpants this morning that she was going to the gym, and she had gone near the gym, but only because there was a Starbucks in the parking lot.

Lydia's vingers stuitten op de lege bodem van de chipszak. Ze voelde zich ellendig. Ze had die chips helemaal niet gewild. Na de eerste hap proefde ze ze eigenlijk niet eens meer.

She asked, "Was that really your dinner—two hot dogs and a Krispy Kreme doughnut?" "Four doughnuts." "What does your cholesterol look like?" "I guess it's white like what they show in the commercials.

I'm very severe with myself and sometimes I miss French cheese, but in your world it's not exactly the same thing.

Chocolate symbolizes, as does no other food, luxury, comfort, sensuality, gratification, and love.

I think happiness is a bit like a cake. If you have cake every single day of your life you'll get sick of it. If you're happy everyday, you'll get sick of being happy… That's a good saying actually. Happiness is like a cake. Have too much and you'll get sick of it.

You can have too much of a good thing. It's like when I bought the box set of The Sopranos. I loved the first few, and even though it was still good, after that I just couldn't take any more.

The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the greediest.

A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past.

The love of wine is a good man's failing.

You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.

Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death.