Oscar Wilde Quotes, Food Quotes, Wine Quotes

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

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An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.

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A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

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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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A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

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The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse.

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But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on.

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Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.

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Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.

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

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Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.

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Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

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DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.

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The most sincere form of love is love for food

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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.

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SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.

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WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can be made; . . . also for bread. The French are said to eat more bread "per capita" of population than any other people, which is natural, for only they know how to make the stuff palatable.

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