Quotes of Gourmand - somelinesforyou

“ This making of Christians will raise the price of hogs; if we grow all to be pork-eaters, we shall not shortly have a rasher on the coals for money. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who "lives well.". ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ The mere fact of an undiscovered restaurant, in a city where gourmands travel in ravening packs, creates an excitement unrelated to the quality of the cuisine. ”

- Lawrence Van Gelder

“ 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

“ The shriek was followed by another, louder and yet more agonizing..for once started upon that journey, the hog never came back. One by one the men hooked up the hogs and slit their throats. There was a line of hogs with squeals and lifeblood ebbing away… ”

- Upton Sinclair
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