William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes About Food

Quotes about: Food

• Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious, - a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses, and yet enflames them, - the truffles were coming.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Food, Smell, Hot

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1911). “The Fitz-Boodle papers, and other sketches”

• Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Food, Men, Thinking

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval”, p.175

• At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the least headache in the morning, I give you my word; on the contrary, you only wake with a sweet refreshing thirst for claret and water.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Sweet, Morning, Food

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Roundabout Papers (from the Cornhill Magazine): To which is Added The Second Funeral of Napoleon”, p.177

• Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Food, Talking, Cooking

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