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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Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.

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

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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

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As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.

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

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Acorns were good until bread was found.

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A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

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God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.

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An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.

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A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.

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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

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There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

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Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.

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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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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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A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.

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

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A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

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