Hector Hugh Munro Quotes, Food Quotes, Wine Quotes

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

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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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That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.

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There are two Italies.... The one is the most sublime and lovely contemplation that can be conceived by the imagination of man; the other is the most degraded, disgusting, and odious. What do you think? Young women of rank actually eat - you will never guess what - garlick! Our poor friend Lord Byron is quite corrupted by living among these people, and in fact, is going on in a way not worthy of him.

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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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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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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

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The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

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The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.

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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

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To a man with an empty stomach food is God

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

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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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Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

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God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.

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Thy food is such As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs.

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The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

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A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

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