Quotes about food-and-eating

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

— Gloria Steinem

Lunch is for wimps.

— Oliver Stone

When one has tasted it [Watermelon] he knows what the angels eat.

— Mark Twain

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

— Peter De Vries

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

— Oscar Wilde

Although there is a great deal of controversy among scientists about the effects of ingested food on the brain, no one denies that you can change your cognition and mood by what you eat.

— Arthur Winter

You get fat in the moments between when you know you should stop and when you do.

— Michael Lipsey

Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goats cheese... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.

— Henry David Thoreau

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

— M. F. K. Fisher

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

— Virginia Woolf