Walter de La Mare Quotes

It is a curious fact that no man likes to call himself a glutton, and yet each of us has in him a trace of gluttony, potential or actual. I cannot believe that there exists a single coherent human being who will not confess, at least to himself, that once or twice he has stuffed himself to bursting point on anything from quail financiere to flapjacks, for no other reason than the beastlike satisfaction of his belly.

I think it's important to encourage gluttony in all its formats.

I'm a bit of a glutton - I eat too much of all that is good to eat.

I'm naturally greedy and would end up the size of a house if I ate all I wanted all of the time.

My greatest weakness is... food. If it looks like it's going to taste nice, it goes in my face - simple as that.

I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.

I was greedy and ate in that unselfconscious way teenagers do, constantly grazing and eating when I wasn't hungry.

I struggle because I love food and sometimes I can't stop eating.

From abundance springs satiety.

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.

Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.

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.

I will normally eat about seven or eight mince pies in one sitting. Sometimes, I can get to double figures. My friends, and probably most people, stop at two, so they probably dislike me a bit for it.

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

I love food, and I'm a chronic over-orderer at restaurants.

I wolf food down like you've never seen. For some reason, I have no self-control when it comes to the pace of eating.

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

My worst vice is gluttony. I try to keep myself under control because I'm an athlete, but once a week I like to pig out and act like a normal person.

Gluttony? I could eat and eat and eat and eat and eat. I'd love to pig out on gluten. I mean, I'm allergic to gluten, but I really want to do that. I want to sit in bed one day and just pig out.

Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.

If I have one addiction in life, it's probably food.

I'm famous for splurging at fast-food places. I'm currently obsessed with Taco Bell's bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony!

We have all heard of the animal standing in doubt between two stacks of hay and starving to death, the like of which would never happen to Gen. Cass. Place stacks a thousand miles apart: he would stand stock still, midway between them, and eat them both at once; and the green grass along the line would be apt to suffer some, too, at the same time.

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

I'm, like, a compulsive eater. I'm going to be so fat when I'm older, it's ridiculous.