Charles Dickens Quotes, Coffee Quotes, Food Quotes

There was a little plate of hothouse nectarines on the table, and there was another of grapes, and another of sponge-cakes, and there was a bottle of light wine ... 'This is my frugal breakfast ... Give me my peach, my cup of coffee, and my claret.'

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Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.

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

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This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let's go and beat this guy up and come back and drink some more beer.

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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

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The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

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As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.

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For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.

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New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.

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I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

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A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.

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And Mocha's berry, from Arabia pure, In small fine china cups, came in at last. Gold cups of filigree, made to secure the hand from burning, underneath them place. Cloves, cinnamon and saffron, too, were boiled Up with the coffee, which, I think, they spoiled.

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Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

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Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

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

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The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

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

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But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on.

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Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

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