Honore de Balzac 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.

Oh, pity the poor glutton Whose troubles all begin In struggling on and on to turn What's out into what's in.

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

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

When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.

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.

We never repent of having eaten too little.

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.

All surfeit is the father of much fast.

What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?

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.

To a greedy eating horse a short halter.

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

Take heed to your selves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness.

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

It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.

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

I think an excess of anything is bad, be it mobile phones, social media, private tuitions or watching television.

I am not a person who believes in austerity or denial.

Glutton- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.

'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.

We had a delicious dinner of too much.

He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.

Feast today makes fast tomorrow