Oscar Wilde Quotes, Food Quotes, Oil Quotes

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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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.

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

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Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.

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CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.

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Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see.

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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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Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.

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Hunger is the best sauce.

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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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OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.

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

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Gluttony is a great fault; but we do not necessarily dislike a glutton. We only dislike the glutton when he becomes a gourmet-that is, we only dislike him when he not only wants the best for himself, but knows what is best for other people.

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I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

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To a man with an empty stomach food is God

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

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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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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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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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