“The Creator, when he obliges man to eat that he may live, invites him to do so by appetite, and rewards him by pleasure.”
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
AppetitePleasure
Food Quotes
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Food Quotes
Read the best food quotes from Brillat-Savarin, Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, the Bible and more, with delicious words about eating, cooking and sharing meals.
“The truffle is the diamond of the kitchen.”
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
GourmetLuxury Food
“The order of consumption is from the most substantial dishes to the lightest.”
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
DiningEtiquette
“To wait too long for a tardy guest is a want of consideration for those who have arrived in time.”
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
HostingEtiquette
“He who receives his friends and pays no personal attention to the repast prepared for them, is not worthy to have friends.”
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
HospitalityFriendship
“My idea of heaven is eating pate de foie gras to the sound of trumpets.”
Sydney Smith
FoodiesFunny
“Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm me, I have dined to-day.”
Sydney Smith
ContentmentDining
“But man is a carnivorous production, and must have meals, at least one meal a day.”
Lord Byron
MealsFunny
“All human history attests that happiness for man - the hungry sinner! - since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner.”
Lord Byron
DinnerHappiness
“Talking of pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my mouth a nectarine - good God how fine.”
John Keats
FruitPleasure
“This was a good dinner enough, to be sure; but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.”
Samuel Johnson
Dinner PartiesFunny
“They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.”
Jonathan Swift
Eating With HandsFunny
“It has now been many months, at the present writing, since I have had a nourishing meal.”
Mark Twain
HungerFunny
“When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me.”
Oscar Wilde
Comfort FoodFunny
“Twinkle, twinkle, little bat! How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, like a tea-tray in the sky.”
Lewis Carroll
Tea TimeFunny
“First he ate some lettuces and some French beans; and then he ate some radishes; and then, feeling rather sick, he went to look for some parsley.”
Beatrix Potter
VegetablesOvereating
“The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, all on a summer's day; the Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, and took them clean away.”
Mother Goose
BakingNursery Rhymes
“Polly put the kettle on, we'll all have tea.”
Mother Goose
Tea TimeNursery Rhymes
“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”
Mother Goose
PicklesTongue Twisters
“Little Tommy Tucker sings for his supper. What shall we give him? Brown bread and butter.”
Mother Goose
SupperNursery Rhymes
“One bad turn deserves another.”
Aesop
Dinner GuestsFables
“Governing a great state is like cooking small fish.”
Lao Tzu
CookingLeadership
“I like fish, and I also like bear's paws. If I cannot have the two together, I will let the fish go, and take the bear's paws.”
Mencius
ChoicesPhilosophy
“They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.”
William Shakespeare
BakingFruit
“O monstrous! but one half-pennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack!”
William Shakespeare
BreadFunny