Delicious Food Quotes

• In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.

  Robin Leach

  Food, Wine, Add

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• Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Breakfast Food

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.15, Oscar Wilde

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• Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Success, Inspiration

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• The people who give you their food give you their heart.

  Cesar Chavez

  Food, Heart, Eating Good

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.352, Penguin

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• One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

  Virginia Woolf

  Love, Food, Sleep

  1929 A Room of One's Own, ch.1.

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• Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

  Voltaire

  Drinking, Food, Godly

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• If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.

  Fernand Point

  Pain, Food, Taken

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• There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Thanksgiving, Witty, Humorous

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• Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

  Orson Welles

  Country, Food, Lunch Break

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• I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting

  Teri Garr

  Comforting, Affection, Enormous

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• I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure

  Anthony Bourdain

  Food, Adventure, Oysters

  Anthony Bourdain (2013). “Kitchen Confidential”, p.6, A&C Black

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• Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Life, Witty

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Apr 13, 2010

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• If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.

  Cesar Chavez

  Love, Food, Heart

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• A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

  Barbara Johnson

  Food, Weight Loss, Dessert First

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Leaking Laffs Between Pampers and Depends”, p.67, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I have my new food line in the works - I think it's over 200 items. Hopefully I can make a difference; it's delicious food that's just so easy. I think it'll help people enjoy their lives... it's good!

  Paula Deen

  Thinking, Differences, People

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• Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients.

  Mario Batali

  Stuff, Ingredients, Logic

  "An Introduction and Rallying Cry". www.esquire.com. August 24, 2011.

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• The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

  Julia Child

  Funny, Food, Vegetables

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• Get up early and go to the local produce markets. In Latin America and Asia, those are usually great places to find delicious food stalls serving cheap, authentic and fresh specialties.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Latin, Up Early, America

  "Your Interview: Anthony Bourdain". CBC News.ca reader questions, www.cbc.ca. September 8, 2010.

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• I like food. I like eating. And I don't want to deprive myself of good food.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Food, Fda, Want

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• When the waitress asked if I wanted my pizza cut into four or eight slices, I said, 'Four. I don't think I can eat eight.'

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Food, Cutting

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• A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Food, Wine

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

  Nora Ephron

  Love, Regret, Mistake

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Feb 09, 2011

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• The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

  E. M. Forster

  Life, Food, Sleep

  "Aspects of the Novel".

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• I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Food, Oysters

  "Don't Drink the Water: A Comedy in Two Acts". Play by Woody Allen (p. 26), 1967.

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• I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Food, Oysters, Sick

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