Oscar Wilde Quotes About Eating

• I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

  Oscar Wilde

  Food, People, Cooking

• I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Food, Oysters, Sick

• The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of their own stupidity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Tired, Vanity

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1043, GENERAL PRESS

• How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heartless, Cuffs, Muffins

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.41, Courier Corporation

• memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Soul, Eating

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.209, Lulu Press, Inc

• When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.

  Oscar Wilde

  Unhappy, Muffins, Trouble

  Oscar Wilde (1956). “Annotated The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People with English Grammar Exercises: by Oscar Wilde (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.72, Powell Publications, LLC

• They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance

  Oscar Wilde

  Looks, Muffins, Eating

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.159, Penguin

• Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.

  Oscar Wilde

  Swimming, Doubt, Purpose

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.166, Courier Corporation

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