Irene Dunne Quotes

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

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

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

Everything in life that’s any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening.

Food, sex, and liquor create their own appetite.

Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable.

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.

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

In the order named, these are the hardest to control - wine, women and song.

Any other town you go to there's this little devil and a little angel on your shoulder. A little good advice, a little bad advice.You go to Las Vegas, there's like a devil and a devil and they're just battling it out the whole time. It's like, "Smoke some crack!" "Get a hooker!" And then I go, "YEA! Yea, this is a good town. Smoke some crack and get a hooker! Alright!"

I mean, most fun things are bad for you in one way or another.

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

Pleasure itself is not a vice

Actually, depravity can be terribly boring if you don't smoke or drink.

I've committed adultery in my heart.

Vice is a dreary business. And virtue is not a lot of fun, either.

Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.

Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.

Put temptation on the unenjoyment line.