Bread And Cheese Quotes:

A meal of bread, cheese and beer constitutes the perfect food.

- Elizabeth I

topic: Beer, Perfect, Meals, Perfect Food, Bread And Cheese

Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte, K. M. Weiland (2014). “Jane Eyre”, p.65, "F+W Media, Inc."

topic: Children, Thinking, Soul, Porridge, Bread And Cheese

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

- Jonathan Swift

topic: Food, Kissing, Bread, Bread And Cheese

A whole new thing. A forging of the humble parts of bread and cheese into a greater whole. I call it...a cheese-trap.

- Joe Abercrombie

topic: Humble, Bread, Cheese, Forging, Bread And Cheese

I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.

- Anthony Trollope

source: Anthony Trollope (1999). “Can You Forgive Her?”, Oxford University Press, USA

topic: Real, Rocks, Romance, Bread And Cheese

The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Stars, Night, Jewels, Bread And Cheese, Windy

"There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, flourishing his bread-and-cheese knife in the air, "in the human heart that had better not be wibrated..."

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.106

topic: Heart, Air, Knives, Bread And Cheese

I eat whatever I want. I like bread and cheese and wine, and that makes my life fun and enjoyable.

- Gwyneth Paltrow

source: "The Real Gwyneth" by Justine Picardie, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 1, 2012.

topic: Fun, Wine, Want, Eating Bread, Fun Life

Epicurus recommends bread and cheese as the staple, and his emphasis is more on avoiding pain than on seeking pleasure, insofar as pleasure-seeking tends to be followed by painful after-effects.

- Catherine Wilson

source: Source: www.3ammagazine.com

topic: Pain, Pleasure Seeking, Bread, Avoiding Pain, Bread And Cheese

The waiter brought fresh-baked bread and cheese, a bottle of sparkling water for Annabeth, and a Coke with ice for me (because I’m a barbarian).

- Rick Riordan

topic: Ice, Water, Annabeth, Bread And Cheese

I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and cheese: those are my four food groups.

- Daniel Radcliffe

topic: Navy, Meat, Groups, Meat And Potatoes, Stout