Jonathan Swift Quotes About Food

Quotes about: Food

• Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

  Jonathan Swift

  Broken Heart, Food, Pie

  1738 Polite Conversation.

• He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

  Jonathan Swift

  Food, Men, Oysters

  1738 Polite Conversation, dialogue 2.

• I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.

  Jonathan Swift

  Children, Food, Years

  A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burden to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public (1729)

• Bread is the staff of life.

  Jonathan Swift

  Food, Bread, Eating

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 210-15, Tale of a Tub, 1922.

• Bachelor's fare: bread and cheese, and kisses.

  Jonathan Swift

  Food, Kissing, Cooking

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1778). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Notes Historical and Critical”, p.182

• They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it should swim in butter, and at last, sirrah, it should swim in good claret.

  Jonathan Swift

  Food, Lakes, Sea

• Kitchen Physic is the best Physic.

  Jonathan Swift

  Food, Kitchen

  Jonathan Swift (1738). “A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation: According to the Most Polite Mode and Method Now Used at Court, and in the Best Companies of England”, p.154

• This is every cook's opinion -
  no savory dish without an onion,
  but lest your kissing should be spoiled
  your onions must be fully boiled.

  Jonathan Swift

  Food, Kissing, Cooking

  Jonathan Swift, “Market Women’s Cries”

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