Good Food Good Company Quotes

• My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Clever, Ideas

  Persuasion ch. 16 (1818)

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• Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

  E. B. White

  Book, Happy Times, People

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• Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.

  Michael Broadbent

  Drinking, Wine, Vineyards

  Michael Broadbent (1984). “The Complete Guide to Wine Tasting and Wine Cellars”, Simon & Schuster

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• Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

  Doug Larson

  Life, Hilarious, Food

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• Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

  Mark Twain

  Drinking, Wine, Scotch

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.37, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, Longing, Good Company

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.292

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• A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

  E. B. White

  Inspiring, Encouragement, Book

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• If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Wine, Soul, Body

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• Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

  Izaak Walton

  Travel, Journey, Way

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Sir John Hawkins (1808). “The complete angler; or, Contemplative man's recreation:: being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing. In two parts:”

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• Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Wine, People

  1613 Guildford. Henry VIII, act 1, sc.4, l.6-7.

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• A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Inspirational, Friendship, Gratitude

  "Ethics and Citizenship". Book by John Walter Wayland, p. 208, 1924.

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• Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Vineyards, Drink

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [315]

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• Good taste is as tiring as good company.

  Francis Picabia

  Taste, Tire, Good Company

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• Good company is important, it helps to cultivate good qualities.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Important, Quality, Helping

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Apr 23, 2015

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• The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

  Pope John XXIII

  Feelings, Good Company, Smallness

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• A bottle of wine was good company.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Wine, Bottles, Good Company

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.119, Hamilton Books

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• Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

  Izaak Walton

  Family, Empathy, Understanding

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 2

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• Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Love, Happiness, Music

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• I would have to say honestly I was very pleased to be in a movie whether it was
  good or bad with De Niro, Norton and Brando even if I don't have any scenes with
  them I thought it was pretty good company to keep.

  Angela Bassett

  Scene, Good Company, De Niro

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• I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.

  Peter O'Toole

  Men, And Love, Good Company

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• Keep good company, and you shall be of the number.

  George Herbert

  Numbers, Good Company, Company

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• A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wine, Men, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.329, Harvard University Press

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• The fast-food industry is in very good company with the lead industry and the tobacco industry in how it tries to mislead the public, and how aggressively it goes after anybody who criticizes its business practices.

  Eric Schlosser

  Food, Practice, Trying

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 14, 2006.

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• A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Wine, Shining, Bottles

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona”, p.473, e-artnow

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• Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

  John Locke

  Inspirational, Education, Reading

  "The Book-Lover's Enchiridion" by Alexander Ireland, (p. 94), 1884.

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