Appetite Quotes - Page 3

• Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.6021, BookCaps Study Guides

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• My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.

  Bill Vaughan

  Cutting, Understanding, Decay

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• The sweetest honey
  Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.

  William Shakespeare

  Romeo And Juliet Love, Honey, Sweetest

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.149, Classic Books Company

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• The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.

  Christopher Lasch

  Children, News, Demand

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics”, p.520, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Agency, Expression, Political

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Barrington Nevitt, Harold Adams Innis (2005). “Marshall McLuhan: American advertising”

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• Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Apathy, Satisfaction

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• My appetite comes to me while eating.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Eating

  Michel de Montaigne, Bayle St. John (1866). “Essays [tr. by Cotton”, p.282

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• Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Hair, Worry, Pulse

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• And through the hall there walked to and fro A jolly yeoman, marshall of the same, Whose name was Appetite; he did bestow Both guestes and meate, whenever in they came, And knew them how to order without blame.

  Edmund Spenser

  Food, Order, Names

  Edmund Spenser (1872). “Spenser. Book ii of The faery queene, ed. by G.W. Kitchin”, p.116

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• Read o'er this And after, this, and then to breakfast with What appetite you have.

  William Shakespeare

  Breakfast

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 203

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• A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Time, Men

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 3, l. [258]

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• The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

  Steven Spielberg

  Reality, Imagination, Far Away

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• I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be.

  Nigella Lawson

  Thinking, Appetite For Life, Long

  "Nigella Lawson: Who'd be a goddess?" by Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2004.

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• Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

  Tryon Edwards

  Death, May, Bread

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1004, Ravenio Books

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• A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty

  Seneca the Younger

  Freedom, Liberty, Moderation

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• The appetite is sharpened by the first bites.

  Jose Rizal

  Food, Firsts, Bites

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• My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates.

  Dante Alighieri

  Giving, Soul, Heavenly

  "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Purgatorio, Song XXXI, 128, 1321.

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• I've got a pretty good appetite right now.

  Tracey Gold

  Right Now

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• An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

  Jose Marti

  Sacrifice, Self, Glory

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Witty, Sex, Men

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.42, BookBaby

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• Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand

  Mark Twain

  Men, Sand, Crops

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.297, eKitap Projesi

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• Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Inspirational, Despair, Opinion

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.33, Hackett Publishing

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• Turtle makes all men equal.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Turtles, Equal

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4011, Delphi Classics

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• Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday's excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.

  Horace

  Essence, Yesterday, Soul

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