Good thing Quote by Charles Dickens

“The table was covered with food like roast chicken, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, roast turkey, roast liquorice and, the centrepiece, a roasted knight.”

— Elias Zapple

“I don't know whether any of you, gentlemen, ever partook of a real substantial hospitable Scotch breakfast, and then went out to a slight…

— Charles Dickens

“She gathered wild greens and berries while he prepared the rest of supper. They ate largely in silence except for her praise of the…

— Josie Litton

“We have had for breakfast, toasts, cakes, a yorkshire pie, a piece of beef about the size and much the shape of my portmanteau,…

— Charles Dickens

“My thoughts hovered over all varieties of mortal edible, and finally settled on a porterhouse steak and a quart of bitter with a welsh…

— John Buchan

“It was a pity she couldn't do justice to the meal, which featured Scottish salmon, steaming roast joints, venison haunch accompanied by sausages and…

— Lisa Kleypas

“but the most sumptuous thing in the room at that moment was naturally the sumptuously laid table, though, of course, even that was comparatively…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Dinner began at five and went on until seven forty. It was a meal worthy of the age, the house, and the season. Pea…

— Winston Graham

“Our supper is plain but we are very wonderful.”

— Kenneth Patchen

“The banquet proceeded. The first course, a mince of olives, shrimp and onions baked in oyster shells with cheese and parsley was followed by…

— Jack Vance

“There was roast hog, of course, braised mutton, and casserole of the tenderest beef. Platters of trout and salmon gleamed like treasure, dressed with…

— Paula Brackston

“There was a game they played at dinner. The word “delicious” was out of bounds. On this occasion the eggs were robust, the grilled…

— Lilian Jackson Braun