Henry Fielding Quotes About Eating

Quotes about: Eating

• When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood-- Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England's roast beef.

  Henry Fielding

  Heart, Blood, Brave

  'The Grub Street Opera' (1731) act 3, sc. 3

• ...the act of eating,which hath by several wise men been considered as extremely mean and derogatory from the philosophic dignity, must be in some measure performed by the greatest prince, hero, or philosopher upon earth; nay, sometimes Nature hath been so frolicsome as to exact of these dignified characters a much more exorbitant share of this office than she hath obliged those of the lowest orders to perform.

  Henry Fielding

  Wise, Hero, Food

  Henry Fielding (1844). “The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling: With the Life of the Author : in Two Volumes”, p.443

• We must eat to live, and not live to eat.

  Henry Fielding

  Eating And Drinking, Eating, Italian Food

  Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy, James P. Browne (1871). “The letter writers; or, A new way to keep a wife at home, a farce. The Grub-street opera. The lottery, a farce. The modern husband, a comedy. The mock doctor; or, The dumb lady cured, a comedy. The Covent Garden tragedy. The debauchees; or, The Jesuit caught, a comedy. The miser, a comedy”, p.435

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