Quotes About Indulgence

That's what comes of hungering for something; you forget to check if it's rotten before you gobble it down

Villains were wonderful. They got to be cruel and selfish, to preen in front of mirrors and poison apples, and trap girls on mountains of glass. They indulged all their worst impulses, revenged themselves for the least offense, and took every last thing they wanted. And sure, they wound up in barrels studded with nails, or dancing in iron shoes heated by fire, not just dead, but disgraced and screaming. But before they got what was coming to them, they got to be the fairest in all the land.

We all want stupid things. That doesn't mean we should have them.

There is a pleasure in being with them," he says. "Taking what we wish, indulging in every terrible thought. There's safety in being awful.

Sometimes lying is a real pleasure.

I always supposed I would be delicious

I always supposed I would be delicious," I hear him say, although I note that he does not take any of the meat for himself

I am used to the whipped-cream-topped drinks Vivi used to bring me, but there is something satisfyingly bracing about drinking coffee this way, hot and bitter.

There is a pleasure in being with them,' he says. 'Taking what we want, indulging in every terrible thought. There's safety in being awful.

Maybe growing up the way we have, bad things feel good to us.

Wine is brought in coloured carafes. They glow aquamarine and sapphire, citrine and ruby, amethyst and topaz. Another course comes, with sugared violets and frozen dew. Then come domes of glass, under which little silvery fish sit in a cloud of pale blue smoke.

I always supposed I would be delicious,' I hear him say.

It occurs to me that maybe desire isn't something overindulging helps. Maybe it is not unlike mithridatism; maybe I took a killing dose when I should have been poisoning myself slowly, one kiss at a time.

Revenge is sweet, but ice cream is sweeter

I love chicken fingers, I love French fries. I love desserts. I'm not just into dessert or just into savoury food. I love it all. I'm a pig. I love food. So it takes a lot of discipline to eat healthy.

I like food too much to go on some crazy diet. French fries are my favorite downfall.

The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.

"Temptations can be got rid of." "How?" "By yielding to them."

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in my own carriage, have my own box, and come back in comfort. All or nothing, that's my motto.' 'And a very good one,' said Madame Vauquer.

Înclinarea spre lene - desfrâul sufletelor poetice.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls

He had eaten as much as a travelling actor and drunk like the sands of the desert" Maxence Gilet

I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living.