Appetite Quotes

584 Appetite quotes by 438 unique authors

When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting… — Marge Piercy
There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in an iron grip… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men. — William Makepeace Thackeray
Do not blame the food because you have no appetite. — Rabindranath Tagore
Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights… — Honore de Balzac
The public's appetite for frothy, flippant blondes has waned, but Paris Hilton still fascinates me. — Diablo Cody
It’s hard to pin down what makes Weiss’ music so distinctive. Perhaps it’s that even in the ballads, the tone is upbeat, the outlook positive.… — Carlo Wolff
If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of vice,… — Michel de Montaigne
Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question. — Ambrose Bierce
So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against sin. The same… — Charles Lamb
This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get… — Langston Hughes
Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on… — Lewis Carroll
I ate 'umble pie with an appetite. — Charles Dickens
Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and… — Michel de Montaigne
Commercial society regards people as bundles of appetites, a conception that turns human beings inside out, leaving nothing to be regarded as inherently private. — George Will
Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up. — Andre Gide
Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of… — Andre Gide
Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them. — Andre Gide
Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must… — Samuel Johnson
The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon… — Albert Camus
Belief in the future life is the appetite of reason. — Walter Savage Landor
Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold, appetites feeble,… — Evelyn Waugh
I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless… — Ronald Reagan
People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James… — Ian Fleming

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