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He was a cynic and like most cynics, totally selfish and self-indulgent. — Norman Vincent Peale

Child never allowed to give would surely become a self-indulgent adult, his happiness dependent upon whatever was put into his outstretched palm. — Lawana Blackwell

It was a stark choice: shoes or food; beauty or sustenance; the sensible or the self-indulgent. "I'll take the shoes," she said firmly. — Alexander McCall Smith

To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs. — Christopher Hitchens

Extravagance is considered self-indulgent and unnecessary. — Veronica Roth

I'm for all the actor's struggle, the self-indulgent, painful journey, but I would rather have fun. — Ginnifer Goodwin

The midlife crisis you're having at 30 is indulgent, but the midlife crisis you have at 45 is to an extent thrust upon you. — Moby

My father taught me that losing your temper is a self-indulgent act. — Hugh Jackman

I tend to like order in almost every other aspect of my life, but for me, the process of writing is really chaotic and decadent and indulgent. — Dan Chaon

I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

I live by the 80/20 rule: I'm 80 percent healthy, and then 20 percent indulgent. — Miranda Kerr

We have become a society of indulgent consumers resulting in rapidly increasing debt both personally and as a nation. — L.G. Durand

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things ... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else. — Aristotle.

Creativity is very self-indulgent. — Nicolas Winding Refn

And one by one, senators disgorge from their vessels, tainting this very nice world with the smug and indulgent cloud of politics and government. — Chuck Wendig

All autobiography is self-indulgent. — Daphne Du Maurier

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent. — Diablo Cody

When you realize that life isn't fair, you don't act out, you don't get overly wasted, you don't get self-indulgent. You just move forward. — David Hasselhoff

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Note, It is common for those that are indulgent to their own sin to be severe against the sins of others. — Matthew Henry

I'm becoming more indulgent and less giving as an actor as I get older. I'm immersing myself more in roles emotionally. — Rhys Ifans

He began to view writing as a petty ambition, a frivolous and indulgent whim, creativity itself as the pathology of the very young or very stupid. — Galt Niederhoffer

I'd love to be able to write again, but I'm so repetitive. And it was all about fear. Never positive. Just indulgent about my sadness. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

Sex mirrored our drinking; both defined our relationship: selfish, detached, indulgent and satisfying. — B.J. Neblett

You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live. — Mahatma Gandhi

Societies don't become less self-indulgent; people do. — Mal Fletcher

I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival. — Audre Lorde

Now, I looked across the Plattsburgh train depot and swelled with indulgent love at Ev's grumpy scowl. — Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

I always knew he was selfish and self-indulgent and kind of lazy; those are practically prerequisites for playing lead guitar. — Rainbow Rowell

Be indulgent toward those who ... are afraid of the aloneness that you trust. — Rainer Maria Rilke

true church, whilst the authorities appeared ever more indulgent to the unChristian pastimes — Tristram Hunt

The elegance of staying with a moment, without needing to stop and change all the lighting, made [the alternative] seem lazy and indulgent. — Edward Norton

Worrying can seem self-indulgent, embarrassing and irrational. — Anonymous

You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death. — Gena Rowlands

Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb! — Courtney Love

My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley

A society devoted to self-destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways. — Dan Simmons

Thanks are due in three quarters. To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with — Charlotte Bronte

To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions. — Charlotte Bronte

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible. — Joseph Joubert

I've been very self-indulgent and weird and I'm sorry. But I'd really like to die. — Frederick Busch

Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

If the first law of friendship is that it has to be cultivated, the second law is to be indulgent when the first law has been neglected. — Voltaire

He was indulgent toward the open spaces of other men's futures, but he was impatient with the shuttered quarters of their pasts. — Eleanor Catton

Lisa had an engineer's way of shrugging off the entire field of the humanities, all three thousand years of it, as self-indulgent fuzzy thinking. — Austin Grossman

On the other hand, she was disproportionately indulgent towards the failings of men, and was often heard to say that these were natural. — George Eliot

poet convinced both of his own talent and of the need to be self-indulgent in order to be a great artist. — Walter Isaacson

I had been sick of carrying around the self-indulgent negativity which was so much the malaise of my generation, my sex and my class. — Robyn Davidson

Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent. — Anthony Bourdain

Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others. — Francois Fenelon

Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment. — Ovid

How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice! — Honore De Balzac

All her years of maturity had been devoted either to distorting or side-stepping the less agreeable facts motivating her self-indulgent conduct. — Thorne Smith

In my wildest, most indulgent dreams, we only hear about sexual assault & abuse in history books. — Lisa Factora-Borchers

It's another post-EU incongruity. Spas are sissy, indulgent, European. Hamams are authentic and Turkish. — Ian McDonald

She was difficult, she knew. She did not make friends. She was brisk and demanding, unsparing and indulgent. — Gordon Dahlquist

Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones. — Honore De Balzac

Audiences don't want to see the kind of self-indulgent, boring dance that is so prevalent today. — Mark Morris

I think when you can be supremely self-indulgent sometimes it's easy to get up one's own asshole. I need parameters. I need discipline. — Justin Broadrick

It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected. — Voltaire

The Baby Boomers: whiny, narcissistic, self-indulgent people with a simple philosophy: "Gimme that! It's mine!" — George Carlin

Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis. — Honore De Balzac

Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds. — Oswald Chambers

I ended up taking Ben & Jerry and the Gallo brothers home that night, so it was a real orgy, if a very maudlin and self-indulgent one. — Amelia C. Gormley

tree. How she feels enslaved of herself, then exposed suddenly, to the plummeting temperature. Weather's self-indulgent caprice chills her body. — Chris Roberts

I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do. — Marge Piercy

Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead. — Betsey Johnson

If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested. — Moby

To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent. — Madame De Stael

Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction . — A.S. Byatt

Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age. — Anna Held

Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads. — Thomas Otway

People don't listen to karaoke, they endure it until it is their turn. It is the singularly most self-indulgent form of entertainment available. — Will Ferguson

Why should self-indulgent nonsense - whatever its professed political orientation - be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement? — Alan Sokal

Currently she was midway through a bittersweet David Nicholls novel that any other time might well have made her self-indulgently reflective. — Freya North

The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its defects. — Jacques Maritain

Sometimes we have to be hard on ourselves. We've got to get on our case, if we are being sloppy, lazy, and indulgent. — Frederick Lenz

Most of them don't mind too much the idea of a God existing somewhere, just so long as He's indulgent. — Geoffrey Wood

Music, for me, is completely self-indulgent. I write it, I play the instruments, I arrange it, I produce it. It's all about me - as it should be. — Lenny Kravitz

It's disappointing to feel sad for no reason. Sadness can be almost pleasantly indulgent when you have a way to justify it. — Allie Brosh