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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. Find a quote here! |
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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. Find a quote here! |
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FOOD QUOTES AND DRINK QUOTES FROM FAMOUS FOLKS
My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies. - W.C. Fields
Somebody left the cork out of my lunch. - W.C. Fields
Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups - alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat. - Alex Levine
One more drink and I would have been under my host. - Dorothy Parker
Everything you see I owe to spaghetti. - Sophia Loren
Beer is not a good cocktail party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is. - Billy Carter
The local groceries are all out of broccoli, Loccoli. - Ray Blount, Jr. Atlantic Monthly
Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers. - Will Rogers
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. - Socrates
FROM LITERATURE 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 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 "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 "One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." - from A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
FROM THE MOVIES "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)
"Oh, Beulah." - Tira "Bad table manners, my dear Gigi, have broken up more households than infidelity." - spoken by Isabel Jeans as Aunt Alicia - - from Gigi (1958) |
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