Lord Byron Quotes, Coffee Quotes, Food Quotes

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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...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Food Quotes , Offering Quotes

Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

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Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

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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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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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The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Spring Quotes , Food Quotes

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

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I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Food Quotes , Taken Quotes

Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.

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The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it should be eaten without delay. Its finder has carried it off therefore to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose.

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

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RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.

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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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No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Food Quotes , Water Quotes

A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.

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The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.

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If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

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