Bread And Cheese Quotes

• A meal of bread, cheese and beer constitutes the perfect food.

  Elizabeth I

  Funny, Beer, Perfect

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• Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

  Charlotte Bronte

  Children, Thinking, Soul

  Charlotte Bronte, K. M. Weiland (2014). “Jane Eyre”, p.65, "F+W Media, Inc."

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• Bachelor's fare: bread and cheese, and kisses.

  Jonathan Swift

  Food, Kissing, Cooking

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1778). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Notes Historical and Critical”, p.182

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• A whole new thing. A forging of the humble parts of bread and cheese into a greater whole. I call it...a cheese-trap.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Humble, Bread, Cheese

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• I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.

  Anthony Trollope

  Real, Rocks, Romance

  Anthony Trollope (1999). “Can You Forgive Her?”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. A companion with whom I was sailing one very windy but bright moonlight night, when the stars were few and faint, thought that a man could get along with them,-though he was considerably reduced in his circumstances,-that they were a kind of bread and cheese that never failed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Night, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1261, Delphi Classics

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• "There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, flourishing his bread-and-cheese knife in the air, "in the human heart that had better not be wibrated..."

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Air, Knives

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.106

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• I eat whatever I want. I like bread and cheese and wine, and that makes my life fun and enjoyable.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Fun, Wine, Want

  "The Real Gwyneth" by Justine Picardie, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 1, 2012.

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• Epicurus recommends bread and cheese as the staple, and his emphasis is more on avoiding pain than on seeking pleasure, insofar as pleasure-seeking tends to be followed by painful after-effects.

  Catherine Wilson

  Pain, Pleasure Seeking, Bread

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The waiter brought fresh-baked bread and cheese, a bottle of sparkling water for Annabeth, and a Coke with ice for me (because I’m a barbarian).

  Rick Riordan

  Ice, Water, Annabeth

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• I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and cheese: those are my four food groups.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Navy, Meat, Groups

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