Glutton Quotes

. He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton he who does not cannot be otherwise. (Henry David Thoreau)

Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.

P. G. Wodehouse

I am not a glutton I am an explorer of food.

Erma Bombeck

Now that I think about it, you'd have to be a glutton for punishment to keep coming near me given my acerbic personality where you're concerned. (Tory)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.

Spider Robinson

All which a man loves, for which he leaves everything else but that, is his god, thus the glutton and drunkard has for his idol his own flesh, the fornicator has for his idol the harlot and the greedy has for his idol silver and gold, and so the same for every other sinner.

Jesus Christ

I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in I'm proud to be a glutton and I don't have time for sloth I'm greedy and I'm angry and I don't care who I cross.

Warren Zevon

But you can't just stand there and try to judge It hurts but your jealousy probably tears you up inside as much And it's such a pleasure every button that I touch I treasure every glutton that I punish in my lust.

Eminem

Mr. Sensible learned only catchwords from them. He could talk like Epicurus of spare diet, but he was a glutton. He had from Montaigne the language of friendship, but no friend.

C. S. Lewis

Seventy-two thousand of the flock stand prepared to break the Sabbath this coming Sunday. Break it? Nay, destroy, shatter utterly with screams of pleasure as they observe a large vulgar person, himself a confessed glutton, propel a sphere an unholy distance. Old Nick rides on Ruth's bat, else how could he smite the ball so far beyond the power of ordinary man? He is in league. Forbid the games. Cast this Ruth out into utter darkness. He creates joy annually for millions.

Paul Gallico

I am a glutton. I'll eat whatever is there. Pizza. I love hot dogs anywhere. I've got nothing against any of that. If I feel like eating, I eat. I don't feel guilty about it at all. (Jacques Pepin)

And why not?” "You know why! This is a bad idea.” "Perhaps I like a challenge.” "Perhaps you're a glutton for punishment!” "Perhaps I am in love.

Karen Chance

I'm just a glutton for spas and messages. And I love to surf and hike.

Carolyn Murphy

I am a glutton for a beautiful hotel. I am so easily smitten by high thread counts.

Gail Simmons

I'm a bit of a glutton - I eat too much of all that is good to eat.

Rene Redzepi

Because I'm both a glutton and a masochist, my standard complaint, "That was so bad", is always followed by "And there was so little of it!"

David Sedaris

GLUTTON, n. A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.

Ambrose Bierce

I am a glutton for tranquility.

Wole Soyinka

Rejoicing and celebrating with sinners was incomprehensibly scandalous (Luke 15:1). They [the Pharisees] could only assume that he [Jesus] had become a pleasure-seeker, "a drunkard and a glutton”.

Albert Nolan

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But lust's effect is tempest after sun Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain, Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done Love surfeit's not, Lust like a glutton dies, Love is all truth, Lust full. (William Shakespeare)

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

Josh Billings

There is no reason to suppose that people today feel less than their grandfathers, but there is good reason to think that they are less able to read in a way which makes them feel. It is natural for them to blame books rather than themselves, and to demand fiction which is highly peppered, like a glutton whose palate is defective.

Robertson Davies