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Quotes About Feasting

Welcome," said the magus. "Would you like some dried beef, some dried beef, or some dried beef for lunch?" "Oh, I'll take stuffed pigeons in sauce, thank you, and some decent wine to drink. None of that cheap stuff, please." The magus handed me an almost empty paper package of dried beef and half of a loaf of bread. "Enjoy your meal," he said.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
I like eating everything in sight.
~ Stacey Dooley
e-da-cious (adjective). Devoted to eating, voracious.
~ Julia Quinn
ar-is-tol-o-gy (noun). The art or "science" of dining
~ Julia Quinn
I am a foodie and Puja is the time when you can indulge and not think about diet charts.
~ Rituparna Sengupta
Jenny beamed at him. She liked to see a man eat. Well, she liked to see anybody eat.
~ Faith Martin
We all wish not to be disturbed. Instead we want to live out our lives in feasting and idleness, hoping the ugliness of this rebelius world will never touch us. Ignoring death, pretending it will never happen, or that if it does, the great, kind, merciful God will overlook our years of defiance and whisk us off to some magical land where we can go right on in our wicked ways.
~ June Strong
I hate to interrupt the feasting," Vanessa said, "but we did come here for a purpose. Let's try to focus on something besides sweet fat and salty fat for the next little while.
~ Brandon Mull
The Georgians will treat you like royalty, and the odds are you'll do a lot of eating, drinking and toasting.
~ Katie Melua
Herra ja ylhäisyys kanapaistia päivisin söi ja nättien tyttöjen kanssa iltaisin leikkiä löi
~ Bulgakov Mikhail
We had come so close to greatness. We had smelled it, and it smelled like roast pig. Everybody likes the smell of roast pig. But what is worse, smelling the roast and not feasting, or not smelling the roast at all?
~ Garth Stein
his enemies in chapter 19 as the "great supper of God" where the birds of prey eat the flesh of his defeated foes (19:17). While Leviathan is not included in this Revelation passage, it is the same kind of nature banquet motif as described in Psalm 74: creatures feasting on the flesh of the enemies of God. The "banquet of flesh" was a common way of symbolizing deliverance from and victory
~ Brian Godawa
Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilleus        and its devastation, which put pains thousandfold upon the Achaians,        hurled in their multitudes to the house of Hades strong souls        of heroes, but gave their bodies to be the delicate feasting 5     of dogs, of all birds, and the will of Zeus was accomplished
~ Homer
around the country, fill your belly well Ã¢â'¬â€
~ Homer
This season has been full of rewards. The dinners and banquets just keep on coming. It's great. We want to carry it on as long as we can.
~ Andrew Jackson
Sharing food has always had a central place in civilized societies; it's no accident that so many of our cultural, religious and patriotic rituals are involved with eating.
~ Ruth Reichl
Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our host decrees no water here. Let dullards drink the Nymph's pale brew, The sluggish thin their blood with dew. For such pale stuff we have no use; For us the purple grape's rich juice. Begone, ye chilling water sprite; Here burning Bacchus rules tonight!
~ Catullus
Wel loved he garleek, oynons, and eek lekes,And for to drynken strong wyn, reed as blood.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
It was just Gaston's luck that Orro's prized duck, which he had worked on for three days, had finished cooking. Gaston cut off another piece, speared a sliver of potato dusted with herbs, and chewed with obvious pleasure. "Should we leave you two alone?" Sean asked.
~ Ilona Andrews
A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry.
~ Bible
Turkeys are perfect for feeding larger gatherings.
~ Pippa Middleton
Every missionary who is proclaiming the name and gospel of Jesus Christ will be blessed by daily feasting from the Book of Mormon.
~ Henry B. Eyring
Mmm. Let me guess. I like to drink the blood of innocents, feast on the entrails of knights and eat the hearts of small children everywhere. (Sin) Aye, that was much the consensus. (Callie) Well, I hope you didn't go to such trouble to feed me. I fear 'tis off season for good blood, and knights can be rather testy when you disembowel them. (Sin)
~ Kinley MacGregor
place or that place. The rest of the time, they ate in his solar,
~ George R.R. Martin