William Shakespeare Quotes About Food

• If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Food, Unrequited Love

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

• Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Home Cooking, Entrepreneur

  1595 Servingman to Capulet. Romeo andJuliet, act 4, sc.2, l.6.

• If music be the food of love, play on.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

• Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Food, Taste

  'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 3, l. 236

• The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Cooking, Quality

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.983, BookCaps Study Guides

• Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Drinking, Food

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [124]

• Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Food, Onions

  William Shakespeare, Phill Evans (2009). “A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format”, p.47, Shakespeare Comic Books

• Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Eye, Smell

  William Shakespeare, Barbara Hodgdon (2010). “The Taming of The Shrew: Third Series”, p.148, A&C Black

• Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Cooking, Bait

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.94

• Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Fighting, Iron

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 7, l. [166]

• Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Food, Cooking

  William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.95

• The last taste of sweets is sweetest last.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Food, Sunset

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 11

• Appetite, a universal wolf.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.231

• He receives comfort like cold porridge.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Cooking, Comfort

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 2, sc. 1, l. 10

• Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

  William Shakespeare (1868). “The Works of William Shakspeare. Life, Glossary, &c. Reprinted from the Original Edition, and Compared with All Recent Commentators”, p.531

• Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.6021, BookCaps Study Guides

• Thy food is such
  As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Sassy, Lungs

  William Shakespeare, John Glover (of Cambridge?.) (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra. Cynbeline. Pericles. Poems”, p.400

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