Herman Melville Quotes About Food

Quotes about: Food

• People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have done the hardest possible day's work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably -why, then I don't think I deserve any reward for my hard day's work -for am I not now at peace? Is not my supper good?

  Herman Melville

  Peace, Food, Men

  Herman Melville (1967). “Moby-Dick: An authoritative text”, W. W. Norton & Company

• But when that smoking chowder came in, the mystery was delightfully explained. Oh! sweet friends, hearken to me. It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than hazel nuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuits and salted pork cut up into little flakes! the whole enriched with butter, and plentifully seasoned with pepper and salt... we dispatched it with great expedition.

  Herman Melville

  Sweet, Food, Cutting

  Herman Melville (2015). “MOBY-DICK (WITH NOTES)(BIOGRAPHY)(ILLUSTRATED): OR, THE WHALE”, p.100, Rastro Digital

• Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling.

  Herman Melville

  Food, Ideas, Apples

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.86

• The food of thy soul is light and space; feed it then on light and space. But the food of thy body is champagne and oysters; feed it then on champagne and oysters; and so shall it merit a joyful resurrection, if there is any to be.

  Herman Melville

  Food, Light, Oysters

  Herman Melville (1971). “Pierre, Or The Ambiguities: Volume Seven, Scholarly Edition”, p.299, Northwestern University Press

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