Lord Byron Quotes, Drinking Quotes, Food Quotes

What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

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Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.

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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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I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.

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SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.

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Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.

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It was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.

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There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

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EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.

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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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New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

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Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.

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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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Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.

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We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of the old English tavern, it is toasted cheese. But for some wild reason we call it Welsh rarebit. I believe that what we call Irish stew might more properly be called English stew, and that it is not particularly familiar in Ireland.

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

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TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.

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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.

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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

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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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