Quotes About Gourmand

#1. In the rather informal survey I have taken over the years on intensity of interest in food by profession, lawyers rank only a few trades below concert pianists ...

Calvin Trillin

#2. If anyone can make it to another world, it's Theodore Finch.

Jennifer Niven

#3. A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who 'lives well.'

Elbert Hubbard

#4. My dear man, a gourmand is a gentleman with the talent and fortitude to continue eating even when he is not hungry.

Richard C. Morais

#5. I really like hamburgers and French fries, and I don't consider myself some kind of gourmand.

Eric Schlosser

#6. I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.

Maggie Smith

#7. The final mystery is one mystery. But the manifestations are many.

D.H. Lawrence

#8. The most critical are not the successful, nor the complete failures, but those who might have achieved something of worth, save for small but crucial faults within themselves, for they can seldom bear the thought of how close they came to greatness.

Anonymous

#9. The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.

E.F. Benson

#10. I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.

Natalie Wood

#11. What hits us really hard is that we didn't fully realize the subtly scandalous deviation from the path that our dreams had laid out so long ago.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#12. We are so surrounded with this fortune that we tend to forget that though subjectively in abundance, objectively this is a rarity.

Chris Matakas

#13. I am a gourmand. I like to eat. When I have something that I like, I tend to have too much of it. That is a guilty pleasure.

Joel Robuchon

#14. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti

Thomas Harris

#15. Besides advising us to avoid people with vices, Seneca advises us to avoid people who are simply whiny, "who are melancholy and bewail everything, who find pleasure in every opportunity for complaint.

William B. Irvine

#16. Can't you see that he's using you to get over his grief? That you're just a distraction? All the other girls know to keep their distance after what happened. He's an emotional train wreck, and he needs time. Friends. Not some love-starved loner throwing herself at him.

Nancy Ohlin

#17. It is, admittedly, a base foodstuff, but lobster, well prepared, can nevertheless be made to satisfy the distinguished gourmand.

Eli Brown

#18. Addison sighed. "All this fleeing," he said disdainfully, as if he were a gourmand and someone had offered him a limp square of American cheese. "There's no imagination in it. Mightn't we try sneaking? Blending in? There's artistry in that.

Ransom Riggs

#19. Being Ecuadorian is, I don't want to say it's tough but it's ... something special to me.

Jose Garces

#20. As you grow older, don't let the changing colour of your clothes compensate for the brilliance of your character.

Myself

#21. An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton.

David Mitchell