Indulgence Quotes

Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.

The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.

restraint equals indulgence

While it's a great indulgence, it's also very interesting to have three bass players on the same track.

I don't do all of this as an indulgence. I do it because I'm not a good enough actor to not do it.

of the world and drudgery of business , seeks a pretense of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence.

No man will revel long in the indulgence of crime.

Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence.

My fancy dress costume of choice is... something 1920s or 30s, when there was still so much elegance and attention to detail. An excuse for ultimate dressing-up indulgence.

People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.

The more a person indulges himself the less others are willing to indulge him.

I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.

When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind .

Inclination snatches arguments To make indulgence seem judicious choice.

Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to contemplate upon the other side of indulgence.

Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.

Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large on the landscape of aging self-indulgence.

If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.

Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.

Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right - rather like Frankenstein's monster.

Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.

An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.

I learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming.

I think stand-up comedy is this - it's this kind of indulgence and narcissism.

It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.

Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.

Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.

Seeming contentment is real discontent, combined with indolence or self-indulgence, which, while taking no legitimate means of raising itself, delights in bringing others down to its own level.

Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.

The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance.

The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society’s understanding.

But sons are a different matter to a man. More a duty than an indulgence.

Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence.

The human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence.

Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.

Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.

Americans acknowledge that liberty is a gift of God, not an indulgence of government.

I'm really interested in the difference between selfishness and generosity. It confuses me to no end because sometimes it all just feels like pure indulgence on my part.

The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.

Luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you and prevents you from knowing the world.

Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.

The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

Where character forbids self-indulgence, transcendence still hovers around.

Three enemies that will weaken your ministry over time: Self-indulgence, bitterness, and carelessness. Strong people discipline their desires, restrain their reactions, and keep their commitments.

I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The young smoke pot - we inhale from our 'Bartlett's.'

The gossip is like chocolate - a small indulgence in an otherwise serious diet.

Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.

Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.

Indulgence is lovely in the sinless; toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.