Quotes About Indulgence

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

We'll have supper in a little while, but I believe we should eat dessert first.

She spotted Cam Staunton in his dress blues, scouting the dessert table. As she watched, he scooped up two biscuits and stuffed them into his mouth. When he turned and saw Lyss watching, his face went scarlet, which contrasted nicely with the powdered sugar around his mouth.

Do things to me, Luke. Do things that will make us forget everything going on outside this room.

Eat it, smoke it, stay up all night for it because the memories of the damage you wreak upon your body when you are young will sustain your spirit when you are old.

And even sadness was also something for rich people, for people who could afford it, for people who didn't have anything better to do. Sadness was a luxury.

She wanted the best oils and perfumes, wanted the best kind of life, wanted the most tender hopes, wanted the best delicate meats and also the heaviest ones to eat, wanted her flesh to break into spirt and her spirit to break into flesh, wanted those fine mixtures— everything that would secretly ready her for those first moments that would come.

The only reason people go to bars is to get drunk and have sex. To me, bars are what hell is like.

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking, and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking, and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just feels longer.

The only cure for a headache is a hangover.

Cheese — milk's leap toward immortality.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

Luxury is a necessity that starts where necessity stops. —COCO CHANEL (ATTRIB.):

Cúpoles la ración de dos copas por estómago: a la segunda quedó abierto el apetito del copeo, y las botellas fueron llegando una tras otra a pedimento de don Sebastián.

All you really need in life is a good quality cigar, a place sit and a lighter that that works "

If I cannot have too many truffles I will do without.

If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

she was approaching the age when she could indulge in a few creature comforts. She liked order, fine linen, wines in their prime, and carefully planned meals at home.

Chocolate knows no boundaries; speaks all languages; comes in all sizes; is woven through many cultures and disciplines ... it impacts mood, health, and economics, and it is a part of our lives from early childhood through the elderly years.

Chocolate is both an industry and a sensation.

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream.

The old marchioness had him tracing down bed hangings and carpets for her. Send that. Be here. To her, all the world was a menial. If she wanted a lobster or a sturgeon, she ordered it up, and if she wanted good taste she ordered it in the same way. The marchioness would run her hand over Florentine silks, making little squeaks of pleasure. "You bought it, Master Cromwell," she would say. "And very beautiful it is. Your next task is to work out how we pay for it.