James Joyce Quotes, Food Quotes, Squares Quotes

The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its food. He hoped there would be stew for dinner, turnips and carrots and bruised potatoes and fat mutton pieces to be ladled out in thick peppered flourfattened sauce. Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him.

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Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

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An army marches on its stomach.

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The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse.

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Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.

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

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To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

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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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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

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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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Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.

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There was a little plate of hothouse nectarines on the table, and there was another of grapes, and another of sponge-cakes, and there was a bottle of light wine ... 'This is my frugal breakfast ... Give me my peach, my cup of coffee, and my claret.'

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WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

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It was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.

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

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Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.

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We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

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

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God made only water, but man made wine.

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