Food and Drink Quotes

A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine. ~ Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury The kitchen, without doubt, was the center of creation, all things revolved about it; it was the pediment that sustained the temple. ~ Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury "Let's have another bottle of 'cham,'" said Captain Clutterbuck, when their dinner was nearly over. "'Cham' is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg." ~ Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody. ~ The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins He lives, then, on ginger-nuts, thought I; never eats a dinner, properly speaking; he must be a vegetarian then; but no; he never eats even vegetables, he eats nothing but ginger-nuts. My mind then ran on in reveries concerning the probable effects upon the human constitution of living entirely on ginger-nuts. ~ Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville "A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought." ~ Beasts and Super-Beasts by Saki "I sometimes think the most wonderful achievement of our tremendous civilization was food—its inconceivable abundance, its infinite variety, its marvellous delicacy. O my grandsons, life was life in those days, when we had such wonderful things to eat." ~ The Scarlet Plague by Jack London He took the brandy flask and poured out a glass of neat spirit, stiff enough to help anybody over anything. ~ The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over. ~ Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome "I don't often have the luck to have a dream like this. It is new to me for a nightmare to lead to a lobster. It is commonly the other way." ~ The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton