Quotes About Indulgence

every time that she indulged in it, pleasure came to her attended by evil thoughts such as, ordinarily, had no place in her virtuous mind, she came at length to see in pleasure itself something diabolical, to identify it with Evil.

The glutton usually realizes that gout is ever ready to pounce, and that alcohol is bad for him. But possible disaster weighs light in the scale against certain pleasure.

Here people was once used to be honourable: now they are all bad; they have kept one goodness: that they are greatest boozers.

Pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

That was the lure of wealth, he'd discovered: a throaty whisper in your ear that you were special, that it was all - this wine, this woman, this world - for you. That it in some way existed only so that you might partake of it.

You don't even like smoking them. You just like thinking about smoking them.

down too much beef jerky. What he'd really been

Er zijn noodzakelijke en minder noodzakelijke zonden.

Who wants tea and sympathy? Let's have coffee and sex, Stacey, eh?

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

I'm very drunk and I intend on getting still drunker before this evening's over.

I swear to you, although it defies logic, that at least one cat always knows when it's Saturday morning and she's entitled to tuna.

Miss Huntingforest beamed at them. 'If you can eat cakes at eleven o'clock in the morning you're all right,' she said. 'It's an acid test, in my opinion. If a man can eat two cookies before noon and enjoy them there's not much wrong with him.

Meself I like a breath of air before I go to bed, same as I like a bite o' cheese or something before I take me teeth out.

We pray, give us this day our daily bread—not our daily caneton à la presse. Luxury should be the détente after work, the riot after abstinence, one should not become used to it.

Men were strictly for pleasure and for experimenting with versions of the self.

Adult Mohaves encouraged the young to indulge themselves sexually while they could, so that by their mid-teens, they were jaded

Let them eat cake.

Ixion exists as an antidote to the rules and conventions of other places. We believe that indulging in pleasure will make better people. Self-denial and discipline and virtue are all myths invented to control you.

cigarettes he smoked. As if he were the Duke of

the house. She was ashamed about the Mars Bar

Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!

If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?

We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex.