Indulgence Quotes - Page 9

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

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Writing, Ego, Fantastic

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1958). “The Affluent Society”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humored, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires.

  C. E. M. Joad

  Numbers, Soul, Desire

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• The severity of the master is more useful than the indulgence of the father.

  Saadi

  Father, Teaching, Masters

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• The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.

  George Santayana

  Heart, Eye, Men

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.120, Рипол Классик

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• Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

  Juvenal

  Pleasure, Produce, Greater

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 600-02, Satires, XI, line 208, 1922.

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• For the first time in my life, I felt that a wave, a justice was sweeping away a deep-seated decay without any indulgence. I dearly wished that it would keep going without hesitation or deviation, in a spirit of purity forever.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Justice, Forever, Decay

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• The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Believe, Science, Discovery

  Benjamin Disraeli (1875). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.70

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• In describing the honourable mission I charged him with, M. Pernety informed me that he made my name known to you. This leads me to confess that I am not as completely unknown to you as you might believe, but that fearing the ridicule attached to a female scientist, I have previously taken the name of M. LeBlanc in communicating to you those notes that, no doubt, do not deserve the indulgence with which you have responded.

  Sophie Germain

  Believe, Taken, Science

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

  Saul Landau

  Learning, Adults, Boyhood

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• 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.

  Joyce Cary

  Heart, Self, Play

  Joyce Cary (1985). “Except the Lord”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

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• I'm a sensualist. My two main indulgences are dark chocolate and massages.

  Carla Gugino

  Dark, Two, Chocolate

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Iain Banks

  Book, Air, Self

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• I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.

  Shirley Henderson

  Doom And Gloom, Laughing, Scottish

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are tight deadlines.

  Dev Patel

  Moving, Television, Shooting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Atrocities are now shown in 30-second bites. Hardcore artistic horror is an expression of hating your neighbour. The gruesome imagination feeds on vanity, lust, self-indulgence and despair, rather than the hope of the Holy Spirit. The Body of Christ needs to look and repent of our own fallenness.... Whatever arena Christians withdraw from goes to hell.

  Calvin Seerveld

  Christian, Hate, Vanity

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• An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

  Criss Jami

  Water, Abuse, Overindulgence

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.122, Criss Jami

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• Fur is my default, my indulgence. All human beings and myself have a lot of defaults. Many indulgences.

  Catherine Malandrino

  Fur, Default, Humans

  "Catherine Malandrino Loves Fur, Old Buildings, Cigarettes". Interview with Corbin Chamberlin, www.thecut.com. February 13, 2011.

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• New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role. And these pressures are bringing forward such traits as pleasure-mindedness, self-indulgence, materialism, and passivity as conspicuous elements of the American character.

  Vance Packard

  Character, Self, People

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• There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Trying, Scene, Careful

  Source: collider.com

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• Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence.

  Horace

  Freedom, Poet, Claims

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• When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it.

  Idries Shah

  Prayer, Mean, Emotional

  Idries Shah (1991). “Seeker After Truth”, p.22, Octagon Press Ltd

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• And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered theological rancor.

  Edward Gibbon

  Religious, People, Superstitions

  Edward Gibbon (2013). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: The Modern Library Collection (Complete and Unabridged)”, p.19, Modern Library

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• For who in fact seeks the salvation of souls through indulgences, and not instead money for his coffers? This is evident from the way indulgences are preached . For the commissioners and preachers do nothing but extol indulgences and incite.

  Martin Luther

  Soul, Way, Facts

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• The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Vapid, Ease, Pleasure

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Hal Rothman

  Running, Self, Ethos

  Hal Rothman (2015). “Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century”, p.12, Routledge

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