Gluttony Quote by Italo Calvino Download Open image “In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.” — Italo Calvino ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gluttony Love Matter Pleasure Precision
Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The pleasure of the act of love is gross and brief and brings loathing after it — Petronius Copy Share Image
The pleasure of love is in loving. We are much happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“(one would say yes, if not every day, at least fairly regularly), whether only for yourself or also for others (often only for yourself,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The Great Khan tried to concentrate on the game: but now it was the game’s reason that eluded him. The end of every game… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Or else you can say, like the camel driver who took me there: "I arrived here in my first youth, one morning, many people… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The naked man had lost hope now; he would never be able to return to the earth's surface;he would never leave the bottom of… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The art of writing tales consists in an ability to draw the rest of life from the little one has understood of it; but… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“I ask you to come down to earth," said the Baron in a calm, rather faint voice, "and to take up the duties of… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“... KUBLAI: We have proved that if we were here, we would not be. POLO: And here, in fact, we are.” — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“And yet, in Raissa, at every moment there is a child in a window who laughs seeing a dog that has jumped on a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Ludmilla, now you are being read. Your body is being subjected to a systematic reading, through channels of tactile information, visual, olfactory, and not… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Once the process of falsification is set in motion, it won't stop. We're in a country where everything that can be falsified has been… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Your case gives me new hope," I said to him. "With me, more and more often I happen to pick up a novel that… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Adam became so proud that he wished to become God and died for his pride; the Son of God humbled Himself unto death, and… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
As dialect began to be collected in the late 19th century, such words as Yorkshire's 'gobslotch' emerged, revealing the burgeoning association between gluttony and… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic gluttony. I… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Gluttony should be destroyed by self-control; unchastity by desire for God and longing for the blessings held in store; avarice by compassion for the… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
“Rockaway? That's my special place with Gage - was anyway. Now it'll 'forever' be marked with gluttony and vomit - sounds about right.” — Addison Moore Copy Share Image
I think that of all the diseases in the world, the disease that all humankind suffers from, the disease that is most devastating to… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
What I like about gluttony, a bishop I knew used to say, is that it doesnt hurt anyone else. — Monica Furlong Copy Share Image
“Mirrors on the ceiling, The pink champagne on ice And she said 'We are all just prisoners here, of our own device' And in… — The Eagles Copy Share Image
“It may be easier to believe that we remain lean because we're virtuous and we get fat because we're not, but the evidence simply… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“When a man’s love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he lets a demanding palate make his moral choices, that… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Jerry Falwell says that abortion and homosexuality are sins. Oh yeah? Well, so is gluttony, Jerry. So maybe you should think about dropping 50 pounds. — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
