I never saw the face of Cobbett...I should not know him if…

Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.

— Mason Cooley

I would experiment with porridge - make porridge pancakes, fry porridge - and so friends started calling me 'Porridge.' But I got to feel…

— Genesis P-Orridge

It used to be standard practice that the pre-match meal consisted of egg, steak and chicken. But I talked them into changing to complex…

— Craig Johnston

Worried about a skin condition? Leap smartly into a bath of porridge.

— Terry Wogan

Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

You mean they killed her?" asked David. They ate her," said Brother Number One. "With porridge. That's what 'ran away and was never seen…

— John Connolly

One of the difficulties in understanding the brain is that it is like nothing so much as a lump of porridge.

— Richard Gregory

There's more than one way to be a girl

— Lauren Faust

The food that's never let me down in life is porridge, especially with milk and maple syrup, which is delicious. Paris isn't a porridge…

— Marianne Faithfull

Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek.

— William Shakespeare

By the time she had interpreted Harry's dreams at the top of her voice (all of which, even the ones that involved eating porridge,…

— Anonymous

“Hurray', shouted Glokta. 'Porridge again!'He looked over at the motionless Practical. 'Porridge and honey, better than money, everything's funny, with porridge and honey!”

— Joe Abercrombie

Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but…

— Charlotte Bronte

I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for…

— Anonymous

Porridge, for me, has always been of the Scottish variety: salted, and for breakfast. The idea of claggy oatmeal mixed with hollandaise and a…

— John Whaite