Joanne Harris Quotes

The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.

I'll do almost anything for cake - even trample little children!

You can be enticed by food, wooed by food, sex, money, or instruments.

The way Satan works is he offers you stuff that could look good to the eye and makes you feel comfortable, and if you follow that path all the worries and troubles will go away.

Want a sugar cube? [...] They're supposed to be for the horses, but who cares? They've got years to eat sugar, whereas you and I . . . well, if we see something sweet we better grab it quick. [...] You're absolutely terrifying me in that get-up. What happened to the pretty little-girl dresses?

The devil, that old stager, who leads downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way!

Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower. Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you your beloved.

You can have a table full of gourmet food, but the minute you put a box of Entenmann's doughnuts out, that's all people are gonna talk about.

The taste of chocolate is a sensual pleasure in itself, existing in the same world as sex... For myself, I can enjoy the wicked pleasure of chocolate... entirely by myself. Furtiveness makes it better.

A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.

You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you.

Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.

The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.

Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.

...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.

Enjoying the bouquet while resisting the wine." -Edward

If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it.

Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!

and i wouldn't say no to something sweet.

I have no will power when it comes to sweets. I have a sweet tooth.

As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue.

In my dreams I gorge on chocolates, I roll in chocolates, and their texture is not brittle but soft as flesh, like a thousand mouths on my body, devouring me in fluttering small bites. To die beneath their tender gluttony seems the culmination of every temptation I have ever known.

When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.