If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even when animals are concerned. When people say, for example, that they like their veal or hot dogs too much to ever give them up, and yeah it's sad about the farms but that's just the way it is, reason hears in that the voice of gluttony. We can say that what makes a human being human is precisely the ability to understand that the suffering of an animal is more important than the taste of a treat.

Matthew Scully

Mots clés reason animals morality taste gluttony



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And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

Honoré de Balzac

Mots clés happiness pleasure gluttony gastronomy



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The best part is coming."
"What's the best part? You swallowing an entire cow whole?"
"No. That's the finale.

Stephenie Meyer

Mots clés gluttony bella-swan jacob-black



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Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Mots clés hope mercy sin values nobility-of-spirit gluttony good-deeds envy



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Mirrors on the ceiling,
The pink champagne on ice
And she said 'We are all just prisoners here, of our own device'
And in the master's chambers,
They gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives,
But they just can't kill the beast

Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
'Relax,' said the night man,
'We are programmed to receive.
You can check out any time you like,
But you can never leave ...

Eagles

Mots clés addiction sin greed song-lyrics gluttony california shallowness



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I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony.

Jenny Colgan

Mots clés humor humour business gluttony chick-lit seven-deadly-sins



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Eventually, mercifully, the waitress prised the spoons out of our hands and took the dessert stuff away, and we were able to stumble zombielike out into the night.

Bill Bryson

Mots clés humor gluttony



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I learned that it's okay to feel the way I do: that my life has no meaning unless I have a boyfriend. A real man is like the perfect vampire-boy and all the perfect guys in Twue Wuv.

Jess C. Scott

Mots clés literary-criticism addiction drugs shallow dark-humor gluttony parody heroin pop-culture anti-twilight shallowness twilight-parody twilight-pun



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Oh, pity the poor glutton
Whose troubles all begin
In struggling on and on to turn
What's out into what's in.

Walter de la Mare

Mots clés food eating gluttony obesity glutton the-glutton



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I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic gluttony. I would go to the local library and take out as many as I could, and then lock myself in the bedsit and read solidly for a week. I went for old books, the older the better--Tolstoy, Poe, Jacobean tragedies, a dusty translation of Laclos--so that when I finally resurfaced, blinking and dazzled, it took me days to stop thinking in their cool, polished, crystalline rhythms.

Tana French

Mots clés reading books classics gluttony



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