George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Travel Quotes, Food Quotes

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

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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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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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TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy.

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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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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

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When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

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Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.

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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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But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.

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HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.

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Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

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

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

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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

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EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.

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And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.

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It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

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