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Gluttony Quotes
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Why, at this rate, a fellow that has but a groat in his pocket may have a stomach capable of a ten-shilling ordinary. (Quote by - William Congreve)
This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave. (Quote by - Thomas Wolfe)
Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth. (Quote by - French Proverb)
Let me have men about me that are fat; sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights; yonder Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much; such men are dangerous. (Quote by - William Shakespear)
Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture. (Quote by - Giraldus Cambrensis)
In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision. (Quote by - Italo Calvino)
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace. (Quote by - Seneca)
Such, whose sole bliss is eating, who can give but that one brutal reason why they live. (Quote by - Juvenal)
As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat much are full of diseases. (Quote by - Laertius Diogenes)
He that prolongs his meals, and sacrifices his time as well as his other conveniences, to his luxury, how quickly does he outset his pleasure! (Quote by - Bishop Robert South)
The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)
He was a kind and thankful toad, whose heart dilated in proportion as his skin was filled with good cheer; and whose spirits rose with eating, as some men's do with drink. (Quote by - Washington Irving)
Born merely for the purpose of digestion. (Quote by - Jean de la Bruyere)
I have come to the conclusion that mankind consume twice too much food. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)