Quotes about Gluttony

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There is no love sincerer than the love of food. — George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most — Tim Burton, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
As it turned out, everyone wanted a doughnut. Jace wanted two. — Cassandra Clare
And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink. — Honoré de Balzac
Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coar — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
He shook his head in exasperation. “Are you sure you’re not a Succubus? You seem really obsessed with the sin of lust.”“ — Debra Dunbar, A Demon Bound
The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy. — Criss Jami
I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony. — Jenny Colgan, Meet Me at the Cupcake Café
The only good thing about that decision, Gatt, is that I'll get tea before you. — Graham Gooch
The greatest masters have only made single statues, groups are always inferior; that is why Carpeaux, big though he was, — H.S. Ede, Savage Messiah
Everything for you stems from a physical need. Most of you think with either your belly or what’s below it — Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams
It may be easier to believe that we remain lean because we're virtuous and we get fat because we're not, but the evidenc — Gary Taubes, Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It
To be blessed and yet permit gluttony to blind me to the blessings is to banish myself to a life of unrelenting poverty — Craig D. Lounsbrough
If necessity is the mother of invention, then surely greed must be the father. Children of this odd couple are named: La — John R. Dallas Jr.
If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even when animals are concer — Matthew Scully, Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
Am I tough? Am I strong? Am I hard-core? Absolutely. Did I whimper with pathetic delight when I sank my teeth into my ho — James Patterson
I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they're either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live — Frank Bruni, Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-time Eater
Oh, pity the poor gluttonWhose troubles all beginIn struggling on and on to turnWhat's out into what's in. — Walter de la Mare
Shukhov ate his supper without bread--a double portion and bread on top of it would be too rich. So he'd save the bread. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn