Quotes About Appetite

To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing -- the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again.

This, then, was hunger. This was what his mother had meant when she had said, "We'll all go hongry." He had laughed, for he had thought he had known hunger, and it was faintly pleasant. He knew now that it had been only appetite. This was another thing.

That's the only dog I know who can smell someone just thinking about food.

It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit.

Mama!' Rosie tugged on my shirt. 'This broccoli is tasty and wonderful'.

Furthermore I will just have to see what the future will bring me. But a change of food whets the appetite.

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

I am not a glutton, I am an explorer of food

Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Food is like sex: when you abstain, even the worst stuff begins to look good.

I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.

I pushed away my dessert, suddenly no longer hungry. Resentment had a way of filling up your stomach.

Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.

It was approaching dusk. That time between late afternoon and early evening when most of us are adjusting our lights and clothing, appetites and mindsets, to make the transition from the end of the day to the beginning of the night. A time when both sun and moon can share the sky.

Beck nodded. 'Dig in. Best food you'll ever eat.' She took her first bite and savoured the warm

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

The sincerest love is the love of food.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

One should love animals. They are so tasty.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.