Indulgence Quotes

221 quotes by 194 authors

Indulgences, not fulfillment, is what the world Permits us. — Christopher Fry
For the first time in my life, I felt that a wave, a justice was sweeping away a deep-seated decay without any indulgence. I dearly… — Naguib Mahfouz
Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are tight deadlines. — Dev Patel
Atrocities are now shown in 30-second bites. Hardcore artistic horror is an expression of hating your neighbour. The gruesome imagination feeds on vanity, lust, self-indulgence… — Calvin Seerveld
An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate. — Criss Jami
Fur is my default, my indulgence. All human beings and myself have a lot of defaults. Many indulgences. — Catherine Malandrino
Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias. — Augustus William Hare
The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science… — Benjamin Disraeli
Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of… — Joyce Cary
I'm a sensualist. My two main indulgences are dark chocolate and massages. — Carla Gugino
I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the… — Rob Brydon
Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa. — Iain Banks
I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh. — Shirley Henderson
What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government… — Richard Mentor Johnson
New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role. And these pressures… — Vance Packard
There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that… — M. Night Shyamalan
Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn… — Horace
Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego. — Ambrose Bierce
As well as making friends with yourself, fundamentally one should be cynical and critical. This doesn't mean that you should punish yourself, but you just… — Chogyam Trungpa
Not many years ago, it was access to information and movement that seemed our greatest luxury; nowadays itÂ’s often freedom from information, the chance to… — Pico Iyer

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