Character Quote by Charles Dickens

“Damn, Guppy. I think I've found me a kinky little fish.”

— T.S. McKinney

“The struggle in Mr. Guppy’s breast and the numerous oscillations it occasioned him between his mother’s door and us were sufficiently conspicuous in the…

— Charles Dickens

“I wonder what's for dinner.”

— Emma Iadanza

“Oh, dear. Oh, gracious, oh, ye gods and little fishes. What on earth could he be thinking?”

— Grace Burrowes

“Whatever this guy was about to dish out, I was prepared to respond with, “Thank you, sir, and, may I have another?”

— Nick Pageant

“How would this do you, Bingo?" I said at length. "A few plovers' eggs to weigh in with, a cup of soup, a touch…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“When food arrives, eat; enjoy what you have in every moment.”

— Jude Watson

“He wondered if there was a rule that you had to love all of someone, or whether you could pick out only the best…

— Jennifer E. Smith

“He feels a nausea of distaste for them all; then sudden rage. Damn all food. Damn all life. He would like to abandon his…

— Christopher Isherwood

“If you give a man a fish he is hungry again in an hour. If you teach him to catch a fish you do…

— Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie

We spend so much time sublimatin', thinkin' about, 'What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?'

— Matthew McConaughey

“a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”

— Virginia Woolf