Quotes about Indulgence
I don't regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience. I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine.
— Oscar Wilde
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure.
— Oscar Wilde
One could never pay too high a price for any sensation.
— Oscar Wilde
When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.
— William Faulkner
Read anthing, trash or trashier; and listen to thrash. Espceially 83-90 era. They will absorb you. You will be in dire need of beer. Now that's something you must be picky of.
— William Faulkner
Intemperance. The most damaging forms of intemperance are connected with eating, strong drink, and sexual activities. Overindulgence in any of these is fatal to success.
— Napoleon Hill
When the average American says, "I'm starving," it is a prelude to a midnight raid on a well-stocked refrigerator or a sudden trip to the nearest fast food restaurant.
— Carolyn Custis James
My life for yours: it may mean three seconds of my time to redeem some thoughtless bit of self-indulgence on the part of someone else, or it may mean, or did mean, Golgotha, where My Life for Yours was supremely dramatized and entails our eternal joy.
— Thomas Howard
Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
— Thomas Jefferson
concupiscence
— Thomas Merton
The road of gluttony leads straight to lust and, if traveled a little farther, to the loss of one's soul.
— Isabel Allende
Everybody should believe in something; I believe I'll have another drink.
— Anonymous