All holy piety in public, and all peeled grapes and self-indulgence in private. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“The veil of self-indulgence was rent from head to foot. I saw my life as a whole.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I have visited a number of boutique hotels where you feel there is a little bit of self-indulgence going on. — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“A writer should be able to open a window or two and prompt others to see the world and themselves in a… — Barista Uno Copy Share Image
The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Self-indulgence leads only to misery. Nothing great or even worthwhile is ever accomplished without struggle through adversity and self-sacrifice — Maryam Jameelah Copy Share Image
“And if anything good came to lie at your feet, you would be too blinded by hedonistic self-indulgence to see it!" "Wrong… — Victoria Vane Copy Share Image
An authentic response to who God is and what He's done...What we do is useful to the extent that it provides an… — Crowder Copy Share Image
America is ensnared in self-indulgence and its future hangs in the balance. Our moral and spiritual foundations are rapidly being destroyed. Our… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
“The real difference in the believer who follows Christ and has mortified his will and died after the old man in Christ,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We find personal success and great, if not enduring, influence on the outer fashioning of the world allotted to the violent, the… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Atrocities are now shown in 30-second bites. Hardcore artistic horror is an expression of hating your neighbour. The gruesome imagination feeds on… — Calvin Seerveld Copy Share Image
The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Self-indulgence is something to watch, but anything that helps you understand situations that are difficult to understand is good. If you're having… — Lulu Copy Share Image
New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role.… — Vance Packard Copy Share Image
In the end, self-indulgence is very much about your ego and your vanity and your own id. The more you can indulge… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Planning complex, beautiful meals and investing one's heart and time in their preparation is the opposite of self-indulgence. Kitchen-based family gatherings are… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“They're trying to breed a nation of techno-peasants. Educated just enough to keep things going, but not enough to ask tough questions.… — Michael Flynn Copy Share Image
But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Sula was distinctly different. Eva’s arrogance and Hannah’s self-indulgence merged in her and, with a twist that was all her own imagination,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Novelty and Security: the security of novelty, the novelty of security. Always the full thing, the whole subject, the true subject, stood… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
Without order or authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Self-indulgence takes many forms. A man may be self-indulgent in speech, in touch, in sight. From self-indulgence a man comes to idle… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Where character forbids self-indulgence, transcendence still hovers around. — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record. — Larry Mullen, Jr Copy Share Image
We should always be realistic about our needs, steer clear of this over indulgence & self imposed poverty nonsense. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence. — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence . — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.” — George Carlin Copy Share Image
