Indulgence Quotes

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers.

I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.

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

What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.

The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God.

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest.

Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.