Katherine Mansfield Quotes

I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?

I can't walk by chocolate without eating it.

Personally, I like to yearn a little and long for the next episode. On the other hand, I'm also a glutton. My kids love to dive in and eat whole series at once.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

If there's something I like, I'm going to eat a little more of it than most people.

There are two areas where you can't stop people misbehaving: eating and sex

When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be.

Your mind is like, oh my God, I know this is wrong, but your body just gives in.

I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.

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

Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.

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.

If you want something, have it. If you feel like it's forbidden, you'll want it even more. Whenever I have a craving, I go and have it and just make sure I don't have it again the next day.

Hunger and self-control do not go hand in hand.

Chocolate is maybe my only vice. In particular, Godiva's champagne truffles. Or Dean & Deluca vanilla cupcakes. Just thinking about them - oh my gosh!

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

I am a gourmand. I like to eat. When I have something that I like, I tend to have too much of it. That is a guilty pleasure.

There are a lot of things that we crave, there are a lot of things that would make us perhaps more fulfilled in a sensory way that we just say no to.

I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.

I can resist everything except temptation.

Lust is an appetite that needs to be regulated.

I've a very sweet tooth. Wish I didn't.

I can't resist temptation of any kind.