Quotes About Food Etiquette

#1. Magnus gazed upon Camille. Some of my fondest memories include lashings of cream and beautiful women.

Cassandra Clare

#2. It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.

Judi Dench

#3. I assure you that in all matters of discretion not involving food, we make etiquette tutors look like slobbering barbarians.

Scott Lynch

#4. We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.

Max Lerner

#5. The way you treat your food on your plate is a reflection of the way you treat people in your life. Learning how to dine teaches you not just how to eat but how to treat people.

Rajiv Talreja

#6. England is the only civilised country in the world where it is etiquette to fall on the food like a wolf the moment it is served. Elsewhere it is comme il faut to wait until everybody has helped himself to everything and until everything on everybody's plate is stone cold.

Virginia Graham

#7. You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.

W. Somerset Maugham

#8. I think making a movie or a record, the best things happen by accident - and those end up being the magic. Every time I've followed my gut it's been better than when I've tried to do what I was supposed to do.

Zooey Deschanel

#9. Ten minutes later she'd swore that she was never going to eat another Butterfinger candy bar as long as she lived and that if Danny Jenkins tried to show her his baby maker that she was going to hit him in the head with a stick. Thankfully

R.L. Mathewson

#10. If dreams are thwarted, then yearning must take their place
If reunion is impossible, then longing must take its place.

Faiz Ahmed Faiz

#11. Feudalism, serfdom, slavery, all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kind to rule, springing out of, and necessarily to, a bad state of man. The progress from these is the same in all cases - less government.

Herbert Spencer

#12. Since that era the question "Do you have any food restrictions?" has become a part of the etiquette of a dinner invitation, and participants at conference dinners can now tick a box that will replace a plate of rubber chicken with a plate of sodden eggplant.

Steven Pinker