Food Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Not that food which entereth into the moth defileth a man, but the appetite with which it is eaten. It is neither the quality…

— Henry David Thoreau

“He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life…

— Henry James

The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.

— Mason Cooley

“He must needs stand erect, inflexible, uncompromising, an image of Puritan intolerance and Puritan grandeur. Against his granite-like character and convictions the insolence of…

— Archibald Henry Grimke

“Too much of the old Puritan spirit exists in these parts to the present hour; but its influence has not tended, that I know,…

— Charles Dickens

Convinced that character is all and circumstances nothing, [the Puritan] sees in the poverty of those who fall by the way, not a misfortune…

— R. H. Tawney

“I believe that every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition has been particularly…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.”

— Anonymous

“It was the puritan in him that couldn’t take it.”

— Ian Fleming

“The creator is not puritan. A creature need not work for a living; creatures may simply steal and suck and be blessed for all…

— Annie Dillard

The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style; he is…

— H. L. Mencken

“[..] the very open-endedness of human appetite is responsible for both our savagery and civility, since the creature that conceive of eating anything (including,…

— Michael Pollan