Quotes About Indulgence

You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well.

Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.

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

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

You need to eat, but you don't really need to eat filet mignon every night or buy bottles of champagne at a thousand a pop.

Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.

Life is too short to drink the house wine.

"Exercise" is such a dirty word in my household that whenever I even think of it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate.

We will make ourselves comfortable and sleep, and eat as much as we can stuff into our bellies, and drink and smoke so that hours are not wasted. Life is short.

Smelling the strong coffee and that sausage , and watching the potatoes as they turned crispy golden brown in the butter, made me hungrier than I'd been in months, and when the cheese began oozing out the sides of the puffy omelette, I really wondered for a minute how much longer I could keep torturing myself like this.

'Twill make old women young and fresh, Create new motions of the flesh. And cause them long for you know what, If they but taste of chocolate.

What's the point of having a book club if you don't get to eat brownies and drink wine?

She opened the McRib box and eyed the dark red, sticky sandwich. Suddenly she felt like an animal; she wanted to drag the sandwich somewhere, not anywhere in this McDonald's, not a booth, not Playland, but to a park, a shrouded corner of the woods underneath shimmering tree branches, green, dark, and serene, and then, when she was certain she was completely alone, she wanted to tear that sandwich apart with her teeth.

She had done everything he wanted, and tonight it didn't matter. He was the man who preferred the empty room all along. Not these things, not these children, not her. He wanted his steak and his wine and his Scotch, and a young waitress he could bully to bring it to him, and after that, where he slept didn't matter.

I want Americans to enjoy food. I want them to celebrate food. I want them to, on occasions, to have big cakes and great things. And I want them to indulge.

If you are a human being, it's in your DNA to want bacon.

where wine enters, smartness goes away...

There is no such thing as too many deviled eggs.

In his bachelor's heart of hearts, he loved pie with an intensity that alarmed him. Yet, when he was offered seconds, he usually refused. "Wouldn't you like another piece of this nice coconut pie, Father?" he might be asked. "No, I don't believe I'd care for anymore," he'd say. An outright lie!

Besides, have you seen the price on a good bottle of scotch? Good Lord, I almost fainted.

What is it about food that's bad for you that makes you feel so good?" I asked. "And why can't I feel this way about lettuce?

This obsession you have with funnel cake isn't healthy,

I adore food and always have.