Quotes About Appetite

The only thing I like better than talking about food is eating

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

On all ordinary occasions Magdalen's appetite would have terrified those feeble sentimentalists, who affect to ignore the all-important influence which female feeding exerts in the production of female beauty.

When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say, Well, ignorance then. The child is neither. There is no crime which a boy of eleven had not envisaged long ago. His only innocence is, he may not yet be old enough to desire the fruits of it, which is not innocence but appetite; his ignorance is, he does not know how to commit it, which is not ignorance but size.

All the meat, he thought, and all it wants.

The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor.

Whatever will satisfy hunger is good food.

Everyone loves something, even if it's only tortillas.

Eating when you're not hungry and taking in that amount of food is exhausting.

The sparks are getting hungrier every day, but controlling appetites is what separates man from beast. I shall wait until

That act alone made my blood boil. I wasn't sure how long I could sit through this meal without ravishing more than just the food.

Chi trova gusto a mangiare non è ancora perduto

From the minute I wake up until I go to bed I think about food.

Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.

My wife is a light eater ... as soon as it's light, she starts to eat.

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.

And just as the hungry stomach eagerly accepts every object it can get, hoping to find nourishment in it, Vronsky quite unconsciously clutched first at politics, then at new books, and then at pictures.

Nahmanides appreciates that an acquaintance with death can ruin an appetite for life. And so he seeks to secure the mourner against such ruin—to describe an ideal of mourning that is not despair, that honors the encounter with death but does not succumb to it.

Bread without love is like grass without salt -- the stomach may be filled, but it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

Lucy had no complaints about her dinner. Anything was fine with her as long as she didn't have to cook it.

You cannot control the primitive urges and hormones that drive your eating behavior.