Gluttony Quotes

Gluttony is not a secret vice. (Orson Welles)
Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments it is a whole-time job. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The seven deadly sins of the Christian Church are: greed, pride, envy, anger, gluttony, lust, and sloth. Satanism advocates indulging in each of these "sins" as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification. View quote
Anton LaVey
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. View quote
Peter De Vries
Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful. View quote
Alton Brown
In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision. View quote
Italo Calvino
Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system. It is no longer food, but flesh, and is assimilated. The appetite and the power of digestion measure our right to knowledge. He has it who can use it. As soon as our accumulation overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin,- congestion of the brain, apoplexy and strangulation. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
My worst vice is gluttony. I try to keep myself under control because I'm an athlete, but once a week I like to pig out and act like a normal person. View quote
Gianluigi Buffon
Pride, anger, gluttony, and idleness are sometimes conquered, but the conversion of a malicious and envious mind is a kind of miracle. View quote
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
I think it's important to encourage gluttony in all its formats. (Lydia Lunch)
If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron. View quote
Spider Robinson
Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony. View quote
Jonah Goldberg
Only someone as puffed up and demented as John Maynard Keynes, every left wing fascist's sainted mentor in this connection, could manage to convince himself that taxing America's Productive Class can restore it to prosperity. In point of fact, it's like screwing for chastity, guzzling alcohol for sobriety, or gorging to fight gluttony. It's like killing indiscriminately for peace - oops, Democrats, Republicans and their moral and spiritual ilk have devoutly believed that particular bit of perverse nonsense since at least the War of 1812. View quote
L. Neil Smith
I'm famous for splurging at fast-food places. I'm currently obsessed with Taco Bell's bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony! View quote
Fergie
It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter. View quote
Dave Mustaine
Moses ... denied to the members of the sacred commonwealth unrestricted liberty to use and partake of the other kinds of food. All the animals of land, sea or air whose flesh is the finest and fattest, thus titillating and exciting the malignant foe pleasure, he sternly forbade them to eat, knowing that they set a trap for the most slavish of the senses, the taste, and produce gluttony, an evil very dangerous both to soul and body. View quote
Philo
Thus, in his belly, can he change a sin, Lust it comes out, that gluttony went in. View quote
Ben Jonson
...my two chronic diseases of gluttony and satyriasis... View quote
Anthony Burgess
This damnable sex, boys - ah, you do well to writhe in your beds at the very mention of the word. All the evil of our modern times springs from unholy lust, the act of the dog and the bitch on the bouncing bed, limbs going like traction engines, the divine gift of articulate speech diminished to squeals and groans and pantings. It is terrible, terrible, an abomination before God and His Holy Mother. Lust is the fount of all other of the deadly sins, leading to pride of the flesh, covetousness of the flesh, anger in the thwarting of desire, gluttony to feed the spent body to be at it again, envy of the sexual prowess and sexual success of others, sloth to admit enervating day-dreams of lust. Only in the married state, by God's holy grace, is it sanctified, for then it becomes the means of begetting fresh souls for the peopling of the Kingdom of Heaven. (Anthony Burgess)
Feminists had an astoundingly naive view of the mutual exclusiveness of sex and aggression, which, Freud demonstrates, are fused in the amoral unconscious, as revealed to us through dreams. That rape is simply what used to be called "unbridled lust,” like gluttony a sin of insufficient self-restraint, seems to be beyond the feminist ken. View quote
Camille Paglia
Ah! Five hundred years I have toiled to entice this creature, despairing, doubting, brooding by night, yet never abandoning hope that my calculations were accurate and my great talisman cogent. Then, when finally it appears, you fall upon it for no other reason than to sate your repulsive gluttony! View quote
Jack Vance
499. Gluttony kills more then the sword. View quote
George Herbert
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind. View quote
Thomas Hobbes