Top 377 Indulgence Quotes & Sayings

Inclination snatches arguments To make indulgence seem judicious choice.

Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.

There are a ton of foods that are great for you, that's like an indulgence.

The severity of the master is more useful than the indulgence of the father.

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

Self-indulgence takes many forms. A man may be self-indulgent in speech, in touch, in sight. From self-indulgence a man comes to idle speech and worldly talk, to buffoonery and cracking indecent jokes. There is self-indulgence in touching without necessity, making mocking signs with the hands, pushing for a place, snatching up something for oneself, approaching someone else shamelessly. All these things come from not having the fear of God in the soul and from these a man comes little by little to perfect contempt.

Americans acknowledge that liberty is a gift of God, not an indulgence of government.

Shame can be self-indulgence too.

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

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

All holy piety in public, and all peeled grapes and self-indulgence in private.

My life has been a magnificent indulgence.

An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society’s understanding.

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

As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.

I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence.

Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.

Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance

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

Indulgence, twin sister of guilt.

restraint equals indulgence

Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.

The indulgence of one sin opens the door to further sins. The indulgence of one sin diverts the soul from the use of those means by which all other sins should be resisted.

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

Holidays are our one big family indulgence.

I don't do all of this as an indulgence. I do it because I'm not a good enough actor to not do it.

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

Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

The gossip is like chocolate - a small indulgence in an otherwise serious diet.

The human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence.

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

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

It's an indulgence to go out for bacon and eggs. It's not something you can do every day.

Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.

My passion for film-making was bordering indulgence. But gone are those days when I was adventurous.

But sons are a different matter to a man. More a duty than an indulgence.

Any form of over-indulgence creates within the body warning signs of destruction.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

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

There is a middle path between indulgence and suppression, but the culture has overwhelmed that in the cacophony that has been created in the modern world and the commercial encouragement of avoidance and indulgence on the one hand, or suppression and "just do it," treating yourself as an object on the other. We've got to find a way that's more compassionate, softer, that allows us to move forward towards the kind of lives that we really want to live.

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

The indulgence in grief is a blunder.

The only thing I can really trust is my own self-indulgence.

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

Procrastinatio n and indulgence are nothing more than creditors who charge us interest.

Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.

Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence.

Indulgence is lovely in the sinless; toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.

I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.

I think stand-up comedy is this - it's this kind of indulgence and narcissism.

We are suggesting a new kind of opulence, of intelligent indulgence over blind gluttony.

Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

No man will revel long in the indulgence of crime.

It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint