Alexander Woollcott Quotes

Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.

It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.

You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.

Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.

The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit.

When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.

I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation.

Temptation to behave is terrible.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure.

Lust, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path.

Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.

The things we like best are either illegal, immoral or fattening.

Food, sex, and liquor create their own appetite.

Pleasure itself is not a vice

Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.