Books Quote by Charles Dickens

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

— Henry David Thoreau

“His strongest tastes were negative. He abhorred plastics, Picasso, sunbathing, and jazz--everything in fact that had happened in his own lifetime. The tiny kindling…

— Evelyn Waugh

Who hastens a glutton choakes him.

— George Herbert

“A flavor...what do you think, old madman, what do you think? That if you find a lost flavor you will eradicate decades of misunderstanding…

— Muriel Barbery

“He carried the deep, intuitive understanding of the power of food to connect people, knew that food was not simply a device for entertaining…

— Michael Ruhlman

“The inventor of [this saying, 'That Enough Is As Good As a Feast'] did not believe it himself…Goodly legs and shoulders of mutton, exhilarating…

— Charles Lamb

“To him, restaurants were the ultimate expression of ungodly waste. For of all the luxuries that your money could buy, a restaurant left you…

— Amor Towles

“He often makes prizes of humans who have given their lives for causes He thinks bad on the monstrously sophistical ground that the humans…

— C.S. Lewis

Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous,…

— Oliver Goldsmith

A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop.…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Things seemed to consist not of wood and stone but of some grandiose and infinitely tender immorality that, the moment it came in contact…

— Robert Musil

“His writing had become, like a stash of rare and troubling pornography, something that must be kept hidden, an obsession that other people would…

— Kevin Wilson