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Quotes About Delight

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.
~ Mark Twain
I'm really into food; it's one of my favourite things - everything from potato waffles to lobster.
~ Paloma Faith
Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite makes eating a delight.
~ John Suckling
Shape is a good part of the fig's delight.
~ Jane Grigson
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.
~ Jo Brand
I'm obsessed with food!
~ Sofia Vergara
Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink That is the finest of suppers, I think When I'm grown up and can have what I please, I think I shall always insist upon these.
~ Christopher Morley
Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs.
~ Mark Twain
Food to eat and games to play. Tell me why, tell me why. Serve it out and eat it up. Have a try, have a try.
~ Brian Jacques
Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.
~ Samuel Johnson
How do they taste? They taste like more.
~ H. L. Mencken
Kids get very animated when it comes to food and it's nice to see how they react.
~ Tom Aikens
I can't believe it! A real gourmet kitchen, and I get to watch!
~ Unknown
There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination.
~ Neil Gaiman
Japanese food makes me feel particularly good.
~ David Mitchell
Food is the supremest of pleasures.
~ Fay Weldon
Peanut butter - the pâté of childhood.
~ Florence Fabricant
Wine enlivens the human soul.
~ Euripides
Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal.
~ Voltaire
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
~ Mae West
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
~ John Dryden
Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright! Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train.
~ Joseph Addison
The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.
~ Samuel Johnson