Food and Drinking Quotes

Quotes taken from literature, from the mouths of famous personalities, from the movies, and more - all relating to foods, drinks, eating, dining, and table manners.

1. I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul. - Alec Waugh, In Praise of Wine (1959)

2. I did not say that this meat was tough. I just said I didn't see the horse that usually stands outside. - W.C. Fields

3. My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies. - W.C. Fields

4. Somebody left the cork out of my lunch. - W.C. Fields

5. Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups - alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat. - Alex Levine

6. One more drink and I would have been under my host. - Dorothy Parker

7. In a house without a genuine kitchen, one of the delights of growing up is lost. - James Beard

8. Everything you see I owe to spaghetti. - Sophia Loren

9. Frying Pan, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen. - Ambrose Bierce

10. Beer is not a good cocktail party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is. - Billy Carter

11. The local groceries are all out of broccoli, Loccoli. - Ray Blount, Jr. Atlantic Monthly

12. Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers. - Will Rogers

13. Nobody says anything at any meal, to anybody. All the passengers are very dismal, and seem to have tremendous secrets weighing on their minds. - Charles Dickens, on his trip on an American paddle-steamer.

14. I speak from experience when I say that hospitals have the worst food in the world. - James Beard

15. Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. - Socrates

Quoted From Literature

1. Pop stood by the cocktail cabinet consulting a book, A Guide to Better Drinking, given him by Montgomery for Christmas. It was the only book he had ever read. - from The Darling Buds of May by H.E. Bates

2. Aunt Helen would say in the playful manner of those times "And how would a little girl feel about some luncheon?" Whereupon they went up in the lift to the fourth floor and had luncheon, which was always finished with a strawberry ice. After that they bought half a pound of coffee chocolate creams and went to a matinee in a four wheeler. - from At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie

3. The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me, and I to them. - from Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. I do not possess a copy of the menu; and if I did it would not convey anything to anybody. It was written in a sort of super-French employed by cooks, but quite unintelligible to Frenchmen. - from The Queer Feet by G.K. Chesterton

5. I heard Mr. Hubble remark that "a bit of savoury pork pie would lay atop of anything you could mention, and do no harm," and I heard Joe say "You shall have some, Pip". - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

6. "A plate of apples, an open fire, and and 'a jolly goode booke' are a fair substitute for heaven." vowed Barney. - from The Blue Castle by Lucy Maud Montgomery

7. "One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." - from A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

Food Related Movie Quotes

1. "Who buys Italian meat anyway? You think my wife buys Italian meat? She goes down to A & P, picks up a lamb chop wrapped in cellophane, opens a can of peas - and that's dinner, boy!" - spoken by Jerry Paris as Tommy - - from Marty (1955)

2. "Oh, Beulah." - Tira
   "Yes, Ma'am." - Beulah
   "Peel me a grape." - Tira - spoken by Mae West as Tira to Gertrude Howard as Beulah, Tira's personal maid - - from I'm No Angel (1933)

3. "Bad table manners, my dear Gigi, have broken up more households than infidelity." - spoken by Isabel Jeans as Aunt Alicia - - from Gigi (1958)

4. "Coffee and cigarettes, you know? That's, like, the breakfast of champions." - spoken by Jim Jarmusch as Bob - - from Blue in the Face (1995)