What is food to one is to others bitter poison.
—Lucretius, 50 BCQuotes
No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.
—Horace, 20 BC’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595A woman should never be seen eating or drinking unless it be lobster salad and champagne, the only truly feminine and becoming viands.
—Lord Byron, 1812Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
—Socrates, c. 430 BCThe decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.
—David Hume, 1751For, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
—Herman Melville, 1851Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
—Sydney Smith, 1855Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
—Aldous Huxley, 1929At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
—St. Jerome, 395