Gluttony+of+Delicacy

"One of the great achievements of the last hundred years has been to deaden the human conscience on [gluttony], so that by now you will hardly find a sermon preached or a conscience troubled about it in the whole length and breadth of Europe."


 * "...gluttony of Delicacy, not gluttony of Excess."**

"But what do quantities matter, provided we can use a human belly and palate to produce querulousness, impatience, uncharitableness, and self-concern?" "Because what she wants is smaller and less costly than what has been set before her, she never recognises as gluttony her determination to get what she wants, however troublesome it may be to others."

"...an insatiable demand for the exact, and almost impossible, palatal pleasures which she imagines she remembers from the past; a past described by her as 'the days when you could get good servants' but known to us as the days when her senses were more easily pleased and she had pleasures of other kinds which made her less dependent on those of the table."

"Males are best turned into gluttons with the help of their vanity...What begins as vanity can then be gradually turned into habit."

**"Mere excess in food is much less valuable than delicacy." **

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