Food and Drink Quotes

"Next," said Mrs Wilfer with a wave of her gloves, expressive of abdication under protest from the culinary throne, "I would recommend examination of the bacon in the saucepan on the fire, and also of the potatoes by the application of a fork. Preparation of the greens will further become necessary if you persist in this unseemly demeanour." ~ Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens "Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it." ~ The Poison Belt by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I love long life better than figs. ~ Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare She ordered a cup of tea, which proved excessively bad, and this gave her a sense that she was suffering in a romantic cause. ~ Washington Square by Henry James Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing. ~ Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained. ~ Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome All the knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost in self-defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature. ~ Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast. ~ The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins "Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted, mostly." ~ Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson "I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me." ~ Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson