Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Food Quotes, Believe Quotes

We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of the old English tavern, it is toasted cheese. But for some wild reason we call it Welsh rarebit. I believe that what we call Irish stew might more properly be called English stew, and that it is not particularly familiar in Ireland.

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A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

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

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FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs

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Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.

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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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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.

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A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.

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

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There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

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

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His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

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I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

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Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

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Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

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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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Hunger is the best sauce.

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