H. G. Wells Quotes, Food Quotes, Offering Quotes

...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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A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

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A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.

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

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

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Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

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But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on.

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Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.

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

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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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What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

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

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For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.

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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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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

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We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

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WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can be made; . . . also for bread. The French are said to eat more bread "per capita" of population than any other people, which is natural, for only they know how to make the stuff palatable.

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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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