T. S. Eliot Quotes, Food Quotes, Winter Quotes

The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways.

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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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Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?

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

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I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and who would see Him face to face, restraint in diet both as to quantity and quality is as essential as restraint in thought and speech.

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Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

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

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Appetite, a universal wolf.

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A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

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I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

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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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Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.

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

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If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

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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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Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

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Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.

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