Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Food Quotes, Offering Quotes

Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.

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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 do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

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When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

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A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.

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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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Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.

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We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

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Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.

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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

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HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.

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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

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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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And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

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Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.

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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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A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.

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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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Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

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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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