George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Travel Quotes, Food Quotes

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

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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

In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.

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Tags : A. J. Liebling Quotes , Food Quotes , Loss 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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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Food Quotes , Wine Quotes

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

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Food Quotes , Character Quotes

I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Food Quotes , Sake Quotes

Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Food Quotes

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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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Coffee Quotes , Food Quotes

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

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

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Appetite, a universal wolf.

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