"Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great……" — Julie Burchill
"Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable."
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98 Quotes by Julie Burchill
Julie Burchill has 98 quotes on this site.
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Sadly, a lot of what passes for feminism these days is just moaning about men, congratulating ourselves on nothing in…
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The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion;…
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Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing…
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As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller…
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Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just…
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Blakes Hotel in South Kensington was a particular favourite of mine during what I affectionately think of as my Restless…
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But just think what a boring, bread-and-milk world this would be without the boastful.
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Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping…
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A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.
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Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself…
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Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size…
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Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough,…
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More Gluttony Quotes
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Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful.
— Alton Brown
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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
— Italo Calvino
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Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
— Samuel Johnson
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I think that of all the diseases in the world, the disease that all humankind suffers from, the disease that…
— Rich Mullins
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Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine…
— Theodore Parker
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
— Socrates
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Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
— Socrates
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Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.
— Charles Lamb
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Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.
— John Dryden
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Just as animal research tells us that gluttony and sloth are side effects of a drive to accumulate body fat,…
— Gary Taubes
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Jerry Falwell says that abortion and homosexuality are sins. Oh yeah? Well, so is gluttony, Jerry. So maybe you should…
— Dennis Miller
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