Quotes with gluttony

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  • Peter de Vries Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
    Peter de Vries
    American writer (1910 - 1993)
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  • Burton Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by an intemperate diet.
    Burton
     
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  • William Somerset Maugham Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Italo Calvino In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Thomas Hobbes The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Ben Jonson Thus, in his belly, can he change a sin,
    Lust it comes out, that gluttony went in.
    Source: The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio CXVIII, On Gut, lines 5-6.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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