Gourmet Food Quotes:

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Family, Food, Forgiving, Hunger For Food, Yummy

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

- Virginia Woolf

source: 1929 A Room of One's Own, ch.1.

topic: Love, Food, Sleep, Hunger For Food, Healthy Living

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Life, Happiness, Music, Hunger For Food, Delicious Food

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Witty, Humorous, Drinking, Delicious Food, I Love Food

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

- W. C. Fields

topic: Funny, Witty, Humorous, Yummy, Delicious Food

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

- John Gunther

topic: Happiness, Food, Breakfast, Delicious Food, Eating Food

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

- Mark Twain

topic: Life, Success, Food, Secret Life, Yummy

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Love, Witty, Hurt, Humor Love, Humorous Love

A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet: he has no need for it, being filled as he is with a God-given and intelligently self-cultivated sense of gastronomical freedom.

- M. F. K. Fisher

source: Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.624, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Real, Self, Gourmet, Gourmet Food

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

- Julia Child

topic: Funny, Food, Waiting, Indian Food, Delicious Food

You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

- Ronald Reagan

source: In New York Times 15 Jan. 1981

topic: Food, Character, Patriotic, Jelly Bean, Personality Flaws

Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.

- Adelle Davis

source: "Million Dollar Habits: Proven Power Practices to Double and Triple Your Income". Book by Brian Tracy, May 2, 2006.

topic: Funny Inspirational, Kings, Lunch, Kings And Princes, Eating Dinner

I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.

- James Beard

topic: Cooking, Gourmet, Culinary, Gourmet Food, Home Cooking

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Witty, Humorous, Food, Hunger And Poverty, Hunger For Food

Actually, the true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.

- Ludwig Bemelmans

source: Ludwig Bemelmans (1964). “La bonne table”

topic: Artist, Perfection, Gourmet, True Artists, Gourmet Food

All sorrows are less with bread.

- Miguel de Cervantes

topic: Food, Sorrow, Bread, Delicious Food, Food And Drink

If you're afraid of butter, use cream.

- Julia Child

topic: Food, Use, Culinary, Favorite Foods, Gourmet Food

News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

- Rose Macaulay

source: Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

topic: Food, Cooking, Culture, Gourmet Food

Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty...

- Lora Brody

topic: Feelings, Chocolate, Sublime, Yummy, Sweets And Desserts

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.

- James Beard

topic: Drinking, Food, Thinking, Eating Food, Chefs Cooking

Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.

- Marya Hornbacher

topic: Food, People, Eating Disorder, Gourmet Food

The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.

- Fanny Fern

source: Fanny Fern (1986). “Ruth Hall and Other Writings”, p.32, Rutgers University Press

topic: Sex, Food, Heart, Funny Men, Eating Food

My goal is to make Italian food clean and accessible and beautiful and tasty, with simple ingredients that people can find at a local grocery store, because people don't want to go to a gourmet shop in search of items that will sit in their pantry for years after they use just a teaspoon or pinch of them.

- Giada De Laurentiis

topic: Beautiful, Italian, Simple, Pantry, Italian Food

But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin gourmets. There is, we feel, a decent area somewhere between boiled carrots and Beluga caviare, sour plonk and Chateau Lafitte, where we can take care of our gullets and bellies without worshipping them.

- J. B. Priestley

topic: Stars, Vintage, Irritation, Gourmet Food

I love you like a fat kid love cake.

- Curtis Jackson

source: "Where Do I Start With 50 Cent?" by Dee Lockett, www.slate.com. June 6, 2014.

topic: Funny Love, Rap, Love You, I Love You Like, Food Love

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.

- Fernando Pessoa

topic: Love, Halloween, Food, Yummy, Inspirational Halloween

I'm a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking - mostly Thai food.

- Will Ferrell

topic: Cooking, Gourmet, Chef, Cooking Love, Cooking And Love

Sometimes the way to a man's heart is through his talleywacker.

- Sabrina Jeffries

topic: Heart, Men, Way, Funny Sex, Funny Men

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.

- W. H. Auden

topic: Love, Inspirational, Dream, Gourmet Food

As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.

- Sandra Boynton

source: "Chocolate: The Consuming Passion". Book by Sandra Boynton, 1982.

topic: Fun, Memories, Women, Yummy, Sweets And Desserts

I love you like a fat kid loves cake!

- Scott Adams

topic: Love, Valentines Day, Food, I Love You Like, Food Love

I'm not really into gourmet food; I'm the kind of guy who just stops by a place that looks good rather than heading for the restaurant of the moment.

- Lee Child

topic: Guy, Gourmet, Looks, Gourmet Food

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

- Andy Rooney

topic: Food, Thinking, Cooking, Not Enough Time, Pastry Chef

As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Strong, Food, Wine, Moveable Feast, Metallic

The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest.

- Roseanne Barr

topic: Marriage, Sex, Food, Funny Sex, Funny Men

What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

- A. A. Milne

source: "Not That It Matters".

topic: Beauty, Food, Home Cooking, Eating Food, Great Food

To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live in France, your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in life must interest you but your stomach.

- Ludwig Bemelmans

source: Ludwig Bemelmans (1964). “La bonne table”

topic: Father, Gourmet, Riding, Horsemen, Good Horse

Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.

- Nora Ephron

source: Nora Ephron (1984). “Crazy Salad Plus Nine”

topic: Women, Food, Memorable, Gourmet Food

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

- Judith Viorst

topic: Inspirational, Strength, Food, Yummy, Strength Of Mind

The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation, the most choice delicacies, prepared in the most scientific manner; whereas the gourmand bears a closer analogy to that class of great eaters ill-naturedly (we dare say) denominated, or classed with, aldermen.

- Abraham Hayward

source: Abraham Hayward (1858). “Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and Corrections”, p.391

topic: Nice, Class, Differences, Gourmet Food

The way to a man's heart is through his hanky pocket with a breadknife.

- Jo Brand

topic: Sex, Food, Heart, Funny Men, Eating Food

Once again, when you upgrade sensations from an addiction to a preference, you can enjoy things such as gourmet food and music, without having your happiness depend on them.

- Ken Keyes Jr.

topic: Addiction, Gourmet, Consciousness, Gourmet Food, Higher Consciousness

You might be a redneck if you missed 5th grade graduation because you had jury duty.

- Jeff Foxworthy

topic: Redneck, Might, Grades, Six Packs, Fridges