Food and Drinking Quotations

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.

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Quoted From Literature



• 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
  
  
• 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
  
  
• 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 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
  
  
• 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
  

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  Food Related Movie Quotes

  
  
• "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
  "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)
  
  
• "My boy says he can eat fifty eggs, he can eat fifty eggs." - spoken by George Kennedy as Dragline - - from Cool Hand Luke (1967)
  
  
• "Bad table manners, my dear Gigi, have broken up more households than infidelity." - spoken by Isabel Jeans as Aunt Alicia - - from Gigi (1958)
  
  
• "Coffee and cigarettes, you know? That's, like, the breakfast of champions." - spoken by Jim Jarmusch as Bob - - from Blue in the Face (1995)