Indulgence Quotes

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

Pride, American, Lifestyle

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

Gossip, Room, Sit

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

Life, Grief, Agony

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

Love, Alone, Hatred

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

Kindness, Enemy, Friend

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.
Bryant H. McGill

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

Self, Worship, Tend

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.
James Wolcott

Children, Everything, Sense

My fancy dress costume of choice is... something 1920s or 30s, when there was still so much elegance and attention to detail. An excuse for ultimate dressing-up indulgence.
Ellie Goulding

Choice, Attention, Ultimate

Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop the emotional musculature that will allow them to show self-restraint.
Jeffrey Kluger

Emotional, May, Show

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

Age, Study, Old

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.
Mitch Daniels

Time, Reality, Nation

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.
Lajos Kossuth

Long, Pretty, Interest

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.
Charles Williams

Love, God, Famous

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

Real, Pretty, Big

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

Laugh, Sense, Maybe

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.
Samuel E. Morison

Mind, Bad, Almost

I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.
Rob Brydon

Positive, Focus, Dark

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.
Richard Mentor Johnson

Government, Small, Cannot

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