Quotes About Indulgence

Life is too short to drink the house wine.

Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.

I tell you it's insidious being an ersatz Duchess, people rushing to give you what you want before you've had time to want it. If I kept this up for more than a month it would ruin my moral fiber.

He could inhale a dozen pierogi in less than sixty seconds.

door, but never in her wildest dreams had she expected Fru Karlsson to order one of everything they had. At least that's what she seemed to have done. The cakes and pastries were set out on

And so it must be in every man while his moral habits are not purified; and, though there may be many shades, some of a more and some a less pronounced and settled character, yet there are, after all, only two main classes. A man must either deny or indulge himself. There is no middle or indifferent state—for the not denying is indulgence; it is throwing the reins on the neck of his lusts, though he may lack boldness to set the spur;

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

together they breakfasted on 'Venison and Chockalatte'

The only excuse for self indulgence is to learn that the objects we crave are overrated and don't satisfy our hunger, which is spiritual.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore!

A cigar is a sort of thing, not exactly a pleasure, but the crown and outward sign of pleasure.

He regarded his whole life as a continual round of amusement which someone for some reason had to provide for him.

A cigar is a sort of thing, not exactly a pleasure, but the crown and outward sign of pleasure. Come, this is life! How splendid it is! This is how I should like to live!

His life meanwhile continued as before, with the same infatuations and dissipations. He liked to dine and drink well, and though he considered it immoral and humiliating could not resist the temptations of the bachelor circles in which he moved.

But instead of all that, here he was—the rich husband of an unfaithful wife, a retired gentleman-in-waiting, who liked to eat, drink, and, unbuttoning himself, to denounce the government a little, a member of the Moscow English Club, and a universally beloved member of Moscow society.

When you feel depressed - have a cigarette or a drink or, best of all, make love, and it will pass.

everybody wants a box of chocolates and a long-stemmed rose

In every era and in every culture, warnings abound regarding the errors to which that culture is least prone. In puritanical eras, pastors preach about the dangers of indulging the flesh. In indulgent eras, TV talk show hosts warn about the dangers of puritanism. In an era of "walk tall" and "stand proud," it takes courage to teach humility. And it won't earn you many friends.

Life was never quite the same for me after that winter walk to town. The charts that I brought home with me were potent and ensnaring and I feel it my duty to warn any others who may show signs of star susceptibility that they approach the observing of variable stars with the utmost caution. It is easy to become and addict and, as usual, the longer the indulgence is continued the more difficult it becomes to go back to a normal life.

Midafternoon, I went in for a drink of water, and Edna offered me a piece of strawberry pie. How could I refuse?

A girl had to do what a girl had to do and it looked as if this girl's immediate future included chicken Caesar salad, chocolate cake, and Cary Grant.

Every spendthrift passion has its attendant courtiers.

Grief, after all, is like smoking in a damp country — what was at first a necessity becomes afterwards an indulgence.

Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew is coming. You drink it, you get a combination of type 1 and type 2 diabetes.