Hector Hugh Munro Quotes, Food Quotes, Wine Quotes

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

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Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

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Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.

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HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.

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I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

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To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.

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What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

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Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

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Eat at your own as you would the table of a king.

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Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.

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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

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Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.

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Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.

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TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

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Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.

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Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.

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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

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