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Quotes About Appetite

But I don't want nutrition. I want food!
~ Alice B. Toklas
So long as people don't know how to eat they will not have good cooks.
~ Auguste Escoffier
Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
~ Henry James
Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.
~ Frederic Raphael
Persons drinking coffee, as a general rule, eat less, though coffee, and also tea, have little direct food value; but they retard the waste of the tissues, and so take the place of food.
~ Unknown
My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates.
~ Dante Alighieri
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
~ A. J. Liebling
Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.
~ Ovid
I'm really into food; it's one of my favourite things - everything from potato waffles to lobster.
~ Paloma Faith
One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away with you," I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.
~ Leonid Brezhnev
Stomach: A slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.
~ Unknown
The appetite is sharpened by the first bites.
~ Jose Rizal
As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
~ Pliny the Elder
I cannot starve myself. I'm a foodie! I make fabulous pastas, Indian food, parathas and club sandwiches!
~ Preity Zinta
Eating highly seasoned food is unhealthful, because it stimulates too much, provokes the appetite too much, and often is indigestible.
~ Catharine Beecher
Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.
~ Francois Rabelais
I can't eat more than six hundred dollars worth of food.
~ Anna Nicole Smith
You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?
~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
There's no sauce in the world like hunger.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite makes eating a delight.
~ John Suckling
I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you're hungry for power.
~ Dick Cavett
Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.
~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Some people have food, but no appetite; others have an appetite, but no food. I have both. The Lord be praised.
~ Oliver Cromwell