Alexander Woollcott Quotes

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

People only have guilty pleasures when they crowbar pleasure down their throat all the time and then they reach for the brownies. Then you should feel guilty because you're killing your body and that's something to be guilty about.

The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.

If I like a food, I'll eat it, even if I know it's not good for me.

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

I embrace treats, but I'm also very wary of treats. Treats help us feel energized, appreciated, and enthusiastic - but very often, the things we choose as 'treats' aren't good for us. The pleasure lasts a minute, but then feelings of guilt, loss of control, and other negative consequences just deepen the lousiness of the day.

We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex.

I'm tempted by rubbish food after wins.

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

I love cheese plates. Though I actually hate cheese plates. Because I can't say no to them.

Stealing, you'll go far in life. Actually, there is something funny about getting away with it.

I have my once-a-month nachos, but it's soy cheese and turkey chili on it, so it's somewhat safe. But it's still a big vice for me, because I have a big bowl of it.

Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up.

My diet is always terrible, unfortunately. I don't know moderation.

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

Everybody's got their poison, and mine is sugar.

I like to eat chocolate and pizza - that's my vice! - just like everyone else, but if I do it I have to keep it under control.

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

I can resist everything except temptation.

It drives people nuts that I take them to McDonald's all the time.

French fries and vino are my vices.

I hate getting a McDonald's. I'm not a McDonald's person: you just feel crap afterwards.

I'm a health nut who likes to work out every day, but I am powerless when it comes to Yorkshire pudding, pizza and ice cream.

I love sweets. Like, every week of my life, I've had a cheat day.

A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.