Lord Byron Quotes, Food Quotes, Men Quotes

All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99

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In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.

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Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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

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Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.

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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.

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

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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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It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

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But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.

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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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Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

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

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Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

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There are two Italies.... The one is the most sublime and lovely contemplation that can be conceived by the imagination of man; the other is the most degraded, disgusting, and odious. What do you think? Young women of rank actually eat - you will never guess what - garlick! Our poor friend Lord Byron is quite corrupted by living among these people, and in fact, is going on in a way not worthy of him.

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Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die.

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He receives comfort like cold porridge.

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A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

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A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity.

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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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