Cooking Quotes - Page 15

• He added that a Frenchman in the train had given him a great sandwich that so stank of garlic that he had been inclined to throw it at the fellow's head.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Food, Sandwiches, Garlic

  Ford Madox Ford (1971). “The Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford: Memories and impressions”

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• He receives comfort like cold porridge.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Comfort, Cold

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 2, sc. 1, l. 10

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• I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

  Mark Twain

  Food, Inspiration, Milk

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• I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.

  George Saintsbury

  Food, Thinking, Done

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• Home-made bread rubbed with garlic and sprinkled with olive oil, shared-with a flask of wine-between working people, can be more convivial than any feast.

  Patience Gray

  Food, Home, Wine

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• How about slipping out of those wet things and into a dry Martini?

  Noel Coward

  Food, Dry, Slipping

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• I am the emperor of Germany, but you are the emperor of chefs.

  Wilhelm II

  Food, Germany, Chef

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• I come from food the way some people come from money. Food was the medium I grew up in, what we talked about, what shaped our days.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Food, People, Way

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• I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Food, Men, Turkeys

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1848). “Don Quixote”, p.30

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• I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certified aridites calling themselves human food!

  George Gissing

  Hate, Food, Names

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• I have always maintained that there is nothing wrong with nursery food now that we are grown up and can have a glass of wine with it.

  Elizabeth Ray

  Food, Wine, Glasses

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• I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Drinking, Food, Son

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I like a Blackpool breakfast, me - 20 ciggies and a pot of tea.

  Paul O'Grady

  Food, Tea, Breakfast

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• I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

  Albert Einstein

  Food, Clothes, Kind

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• I never met a Cab I didn't like.

  Graham Kerr

  Food, Culinary, Mets

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• I said to my wife, 'Where do you want to go for our anniversary?' She said, 'I want to go somewhere I've never been before.' I said, 'Try the kitchen.'

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Food, Humor

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• I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.

  Aristophanes

  Food, Home, Vegetables

  Aristophanes, Douglass Parker (1969). “Four Comedies: Lysistrata; The Acharnians; The Congresswomen, Translated by Douglass Parker. The Frogs, Translated by Richmond Lattimore”, p.44, University of Michigan Press

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• I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

  Oscar Wilde

  Food, Should Have, Meals

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.270, Penguin

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• I want order and taste. A well displayed meal is enhanced one hundred per cent in my eyes.

  Marie-Antoine Careme

  Food, Eye, Order

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• I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.

  Janet Flanner

  Food, Sea, Sailor

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• If any one element of French cooking can be called important, basic and essential, that element is soup.

  Louis Diat

  Food, Important, Essentials

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• If the elbow had been placed closer to the hand, the forearm would have been too short to bring the glass to the mouth; and if it had been closer to the shoulder, the forearm would have been so long that it would have carried the glass beyond the mouth.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Glasses, Hands

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• If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Travel, Food, Culinary

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• If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Food, Blessing, Spices

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• If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Believe, Food, Men

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