Gluttony Quotes

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If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice… — Aristotle
Let's just call things what they are. When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he lets a demanding… — Matthew Scully
Pride, anger, gluttony, and idleness are sometimes conquered, but the conversion of a malicious and envious mind is a kind of miracle. — Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour. — Victor Hugo
If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even when animals are concerned. When people say, for… — Matthew Scully
Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomized life as a voracious appetite, and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude… — Jack London
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… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony. — Jenny Colgan
You've certainly mellowed out... you used to be fun, full of life and emotion. Lust, Greed, Sloth, Gluttony, Envy, Wrath, and Pride. Of course, excessive… — Hiromu Arakawa
Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. "I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is coated with holiness." "May I ask for a specific example?"… — Judith McNaught
These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt,… — Martin Amis
He grinned. â€œI was trying to remember all the deadly sins the other day,â€ he said. â€œGreed,envy, gluttony, irony, pedantryâ€¦â€ â€œIâ€™m pretty sure irony isnâ€™t… — Cassandra Clare
Maybe itâ€™s not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense of almost unbearably poignant recognition… — Michael Cunningham
I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic gluttony. I would… — Tana French
It is a curious fact that no man likes to call himself a glutton, and yet each of us has in him a trace of… — M.F.K. Fisher
Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a superabundance of oil,… — Marion LeRoy Burton
Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day… — Adam Davidson
Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search.… — James Gleick
Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence… — Giraldus Cambrensis

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