Indulgence Quotes · Page 3

Our greatest indulgence towards a man springs from our despair of him.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

I always wear an earpiece for security reasons. For someone who often gets chased, it's not an indulgence.

— Ravish Kumar

“It makes you very uncomfortable to realize that your emotional attachment to something is an indulgence.”

— Elizabeth Wein

Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“…but in future keep the things that hurt to myself alone. They can be my secret indulgence.”

— Daphne du Maurier

I have visited a number of boutique hotels where you feel there is a little bit of self-indulgence going on.

— Julian Treasure

“When you prefer discipline to indulgence, you create values.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Indulgence doesn't prepare, indulgence can cripple a child because the world won't indulge her.

— Dr Phil

I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a…

— Shirley Henderson

Nothing is more dreadful than a cold, unimpassioned indulgence. And love infallibly becomes cold and unimpassioned when it is too lightly made.

— Aldous Huxley

Let every man be free to act from his own conscience; but let him remember that other people have consciences too; and…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may…

— Bryant H. McGill

[I] learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming.

— James Black

I crave the indulgence of my senses but this is countered by an interior desire that is even keener than my senses…

— Errol Flynn

I always like to say that our brand or our philosophy has always been kind of this marriage between the 'food as…

— John Mackey

Without grounding, it's easy to embrace the 'baller' lifestyle: dropping out of tech, throwing money at cars, boats and real estate, and…

— Ryan Holmes

God almighty, in a few short hours we will be in battle with the enemy. We do not join battle afraid. We…

— Robert Lee Wolverton

By the time I came to do the final ones [Harry Potter's film], I was working on something that was massively successful.…

— John Hurt

We have been saying, Lucy, that 'tis the strangest thing in the world people should quarrel about religion, since we undoubtedly all…

— Frances Brooke

The complete self-absorption, and childish indulgence and disregard, and having to feel as though everything you're doing is so people can live…

— Emily Haines

When we make decisions, about eating or anything else, with an attitude of kindness and acceptance toward ourselves, with awareness of what…

— Cheri Huber

Love, he told himself, was open to interpretation like any other abstract indulgence but followed the same principles everywhere, irrespective of everything…

— Faraaz Kazi

A 'treat' is different from a 'reward,' which must be justified or earned. A treat is a small pleasure or indulgence that…

— Gretchen Rubin

If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most…

— Victor Hugo

Now my charms are all o'erthrown, And what strength I have's mine own, - Which is most faint: now, 'tis true, I…

— William Shakespeare

Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness,…

— Walter Lippmann

Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction .

— A. S. Byatt

Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.

— Mason Cooley

Like a lot of snackers, I recognized that snacking is an indulgence and is all about taste.

— Keith Belling

The more a person indulges himself the less others are willing to indulge him.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Fur is my default, my indulgence. All human beings and myself have a lot of defaults. Many indulgences.

— Catherine Malandrino

Where character forbids self-indulgence, transcendence still hovers around.

— Richard M. Weaver

There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record.

— Larry Mullen, Jr

“Maskini mwenye pesa nyingi ni tajiri bahili. Tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka ni tajiri badhiri.”

— Enock Maregesi

The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.

— Calista Flockhart

Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence .

— Timothy Keller

Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.

— Saul Landau

Sexual appetite, like any other appetite, grows by indulgence

— Anonymous

The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance.

— Laozi