Famous Eating Quotes

-- Bible

"An't it please your Honour," quoth the Peasant, "This same Desset is not so pleasant: Give me again my hollow Tree, A Crust of Bread, and Liberty."
-- Alexander Pope

"Good, well-dress'd turtle beats them hollow,-- It almost makes me wish, I vow, To have two stomachs, like a cow!" And lo! as with the cud, an inward thrill Upheaved his waistcoat and disturb'd his frill, His mouth was oozing, and he work'd his jaw-- "I almost that that I could eat one raw."
-- Thomas Hood

"Here, dearest Eve," he exclaims, "here is food." "Well," answered she, with the germ of a housewife stirring within her, "we have been so busy to-day that a picked-up dinner must serve."
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Live like yourself," was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
-- Alexander Pope

"Pray take them, Sir,--Enough's a Feast; Eat some, and pocket up the rest."
-- Alexander Pope

'Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast; It's that confounded cucumber I've ate and can't digest.
-- Richard Harris Barham

'Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.
-- Robert Herrick

A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast.
-- George Herbert

A dinner lubricates business.
-- William Scott Lord Stowell

A friendly swarry, consisting of a boiled leg of mutton with the usual trimmings.
-- Charles Dickens

A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed!
-- Lewis Carroll

A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food.
-- Horace

A very man--not one of nature's clods-- With human failings, whether saint or sinner: Endowed perhaps with genius from the gods But apt to take his temper from his dinner.
-- J G Saxe

A warmed-up dinner was never worth much.
-- Nicolas Boileau Despreaux

A woman asked a coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, "I am quite full inside; that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gillman's did the business for me."
-- Charles Lamb

Acorns were good till bread was found.
-- Francis Bacon

All human history attests That happiness for man,--the hungry sinner!-- Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron

All sorrows are good with bread.
-- Cervantes

And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
-- Bible