"An idler and a sluggard are as different……" — David Mitchell
"An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton."
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207 Quotes by David Mitchell
David Mitchell has 207 quotes on this site.
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False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
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Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.
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Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't…
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A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed…
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A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points.
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For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.
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Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into…
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I can write pretty much anywhere.
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I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.
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I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.'
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I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.
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I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is…
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More Glutton Quotes
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one of 37 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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After eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction; a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in…
— William Safire
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Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.
— John Dryden
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I am a glutton. I'll eat whatever is there. Pizza. I love hot dogs anywhere. I've got nothing against any…
— Jacques Pepin
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Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Glutton- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.
— Ambrose Bierce
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He who wears unclean garments, has dirty teeth, is a glutton, speaks unkindly and sleeps after sunrise - although he…
— Chanakya
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The world's worst is when you find yourself going like Mother Hubbard and cupping your hand behind your ear. I…
— Mick Fleetwood
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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies
— William Shakespeare
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I think it backfired. It wasn't what I expected, it was difficult. I didn't expect them to throw somany mind…
— Sophie Anderton
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I'm just a glutton for spas and messages. And I love to surf and hike.
— Carolyn Murphy
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I don’t want any of this artificial superficial feeling stimulated by the choir. Today I have proved myself a glutton—for…
— Flannery O'Connor
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Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards.
— Sydney J. Harris
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