Quotes About Indulgence

Vonn Dubose may have ice water in his veins, but Claudia McDover did not. Her insatiable appetite for cash was finally fading. She had enough. She and Phyllis could travel the world in style and laugh about the Indians.

Like Elizabeth, she enjoyed two "courses" at both dinner and supper

He was the man and Mary was the woman, and for the moment she felt that she had to indulge him.

Every evening my wife makes us martinis and we talk about our days as I cook dinner and our children ignore us. It is a great pleasure in our lives: this rediscovering of each other as our children age. It is our indulgence.

my mother, who could not have been smarter or more unselfish in life except in this one very specific area. I inherited her dumbness regarding cigarettes for the same dumb reason many dumbs do: it feels good, once it stops feeling terrible. And plus no one is ever going to die, so why not?

A] lot of them, without even understanding the cause, just give up. They take what they can-mostly in pleasure,and they make the grand gesture, the wild gesture, because what have they got to lose if they do die in a car wreck or a knife fight or something else equally stupid.

But I felt certain that if the world would stop indulging wars and famines and other perils, it would be possible for human beings to embarrass each other to death. Our self-destruction might take a little longer that way, but I believe it would be no less complete.

He continued to be deeply concerned about the growing self-indulgence of the American people. Wealth was worshiped above all else. To many, admission

Give me women, wine, and snuff Until I cry out 'hold, enough!' You may do so sans objection Till the day of resurrection; For bless my beard thy aye shall be My beloved Trinity.

When the pig is over-roasted, Huzza for folly O! And the cheese is over-toasted, Huzza for folly O!

She offered Patrolman Mancuso a torn and oily cake box that looked as if it had been subjected to unusual abuse during someone's attempt to take all of the doughnuts at once. At the bottom of the box Patrolman Mancuso found two withered pieces of doughnut out of which, judging by their moist edges, the jelly had been sucked.

for the young Louis XV: Philippe II, Duc d'Orléans, was a man who combined a negligible intellect with deeply committed self-indulgence.

We were careless and wild, and I suppose we could be thought of as a sign of the life the war was being fought to preserve. Anyway, they were more indulgent toward us than at any other time; they snapped at the heels of the seniors, driving and molding and arming them for the war. They noticed our games tolerantly. We reminded them of what peace was like, of lives which were not bound up with destruction.

I don't need to be told how handsome I am every twenty feet; I just want to drink. There

Kummerspeck ("grief bacon") is German for the weight put on from eating too much when feeling sorry for yourself.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

I like to think of Doritos as emotional packing material to safeguard the feelings I've swallowed.

Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty.

Falling in love is a completely transcendent experience. It's like eating pizza-flavored ice cream

No one ever pretended that shopping for anything is a rational experience. If it were, would there be Fluffernutter? Laceless sneakers? Porkpie hats? Would the Chia Pet even exist?

A meal can be an erotic experience in itself.

Pleasure was a siren, luring her to experience more

Wagyu is something that every meat lover should experience at least once.