Banquets Quote by Robertson Davies

As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Today, of course, popular culture is on a culinary binge; and so much personal writing is now devoted to gazing back upon the kitchen…

— Laura Shapiro

A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now,…

— David Lynch

Food is the language. I know how to speak it. -Miss Kay

— Duck Dynasty

I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

— Calvin Trillin

You give the reader a sense of a full meal.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used…

— Joanne Harris

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.

— Jim Harrison

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

— Jan Karon

When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Banquet: an affair where you eat a lot of food you don't want before talking about something you don't understand to a crowd of…

— William Shakespeare

Banquets are always pleasant things, consisting mostly, as they do, of eating and drinking; but the specially nice thing about a banquet is, that…

— Kenneth Grahame