Appetite Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

23 Appetite Quotes
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“A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times”
Charles Dickens Quotes
“Just as appetite comes from eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning”
Igor Stravinsky Quotes
“Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Ego has a voracious appetite, the more you feed it, the hungrier it gets.”
Nathaniel Bronner Jr. Quotes
“When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Proverbs (ch. 23, v. 1-2)
“And gazed around them to the left and right With the prophetic eye of appetite.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes
Source: Don Juan (canto V, st. 50)
“His thirst he slakes at some pure neighboring brook, Nor seeks for sauce where Appetite stands cook.”
Charles Churchill Quotes
Source: Gotham III (l. 133)
“My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates. [It., L'anima mia gustava di quel cibo, Che saziando di se, di se s'asseta.]”
Dante ("Dante Alighieri") Quotes
Source: Purgatorio (XXXI, 128)
“My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.”
Dr. John Donne Quotes
Source: Devotions (X, Meditation)
“Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.”
John Dryden Quotes
Source: Cleomenes (act IV, sc. 1)
“Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin Surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.”
John Milton Quotes
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VII, l. 546)
“My appetite comes to me while eating.”
Michael Eyquen de Montaigne Quotes
Source: Essays--Of Vanity (bk. III, ch. IX)
“"Appetite comes with eating," says Angeston, "but thirst departs with drinking." [Fr., "L'appetit vient en mangeant," disoit Angeston, "mais la soif e'en va en beuvant."]”
Francois Rabelais Quotes
Source: Works (bk. I, ch. V)
“Epicurean cooks Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite, That sleep and feeding may prorogue his honor Evan till a Lethe'd dulness--”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Pompey at II, i)
“Read o'er this And after, this, and then to breakfast with What appetite you have.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (King Henry at III, ii)
“Now good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both!”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at III, iv)
“Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Gratiano at II, vi)
“But doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick at II, iii)
“The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at II, vi)
“The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at II, vi)
“Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Bolingbroke at I, iii)
“And through the hall there walked to and fro A jolly yeoman, marshall of the same, Whose name was Appetite; he did bestow Both guestes and meate, whenever in they came, And knew them how to order without blame.”
Edmund Spenser Quotes
Source: The Faerie Queene (bk. II, canto IX, st. 28)
“Young children and chickens would ever be eating.”
Thomas Tusser Quotes
Source: Points of Huswifery--Super Matters (V)