Quotes About Indulgence

As long as I don't overindulge, it's OK for me to eat burgers and ice cream occasionally. As for alcohol? I've never tried it.

after ingurgitating another modicum of the royal booze

Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.

Books, for me, used to be a way to escape. I now consider reading a good book a sacred indulgence, a chance to be any place I choose. It is my absolute favorite way to spend time. What I know for sure is that reading opens you up. It exposes you and gives you access to anything your mind can hold. What I love most about reading: It gives you the ability to reach higher ground. And keep climbing.

Books, for me, used to be a way to escape. I now consider reading a good book a sacred indulgence, a chance to be any place I choose. It is my absolute favorite way to spend time. What I know for sure is that reading opens you up.

I consider reading a book a sacred indulgence.

If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat.

Panem et Circenses translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.

I can resist anything except temptation.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

I don't regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, when I am in really great trouble, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.

La única manera de librarse de la tentación es ceder ante ella. Si se resiste, el alma enferma, anhelando lo que ella misma se ha prohibido, deseando lo que sus leyes monstruosas han hecho monstruoso e ilegal

Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

Muffins should always be eaten quite calmly, as it is the only way to eat them!

The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable!

Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.