Art Quote by G. K. Chesterton

“He meditated resentfully on the physical texture of life. Had it always been like this? Had food always tasted like this? He looked round…

— George Orwell

“I have heard that, with some persons, temperance – that is, moderation – is almost impossible; and if abstinence be an evil (which some…

— Anne Brontë

And at last father flung the rug off as if it were hampering him and strode over to the table saying, 'cocoa, cocoa!'-- it…

— Dodie Smith

“[…] the lady, her eye catching sight of an advertisement of somebody’s cocoa, said ‘Shocking!’ and turned the other way. Really, there was some…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“Every night after dinner he honed this skill of enduring a dull thing that brought a parent pleasure. It seemed to him a lifesaving…

— Jonathan Franzen

Cocoa? Cocoa! Damn miserable puny stuff, fit for kittens and unwashed boys. Did Shakespeare drink cocoa?

— Shirley Jackson

“He was, besides, the child of a doting grandmother, whose too solicitous attention to him soon taught him a sort of diffidence in himself,…

— Walter Scott

Fruit of all the kinds that the country produced were laid before him; he ate very little, but from time to time a liquor…

— Bernal Diaz del Castillo

“Everything about his character and manners was forcible and violent; there never was any moderation; many a day did he fast, many a year…

— James Boswell

“upon, having—as I at least supposed—a life of his own and tastes and habits which had long since diverted him from the maternal side. …

— Henry James

“All her life she would associate liquor with her childhood. When she was alone and did not wish to be, a drink would reassure…

— Pamela Moore

“From the pit of his stomach a violent spasm of nausea rose up and seized his throat. He ran to the bathroom, barely able…

— Andrea Camilleri