William Shakespeare Quotes on Eating

“Unquiet meals make ill digestions.”

digestions unquiet meals

“You would eat chickens i' the shell.”

chickens shell eat

“He hath eaten me out of house and home.”

eaten house hath

“Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table.”

welcome table down

“Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner.”

venison dinner pasty

“What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?”

mustard piece what

“Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.”

digestion things sweet

“I wished your venison better; it was ill kill'd.”

venison wished better

“If you do, expect spoon-meat; or bespeak a long spoon.”

spoonmeat bespeak expect

“He that keeps nor crust nor crum, Weary of all, shall want some.”

nor keeps crust

“I will make an end of my dinner; there's pippins and cheese to come.”

pippins dinner theres

“A surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings.”

sweetest loathing surfeit

“I fear it is too choleric a meat. How say you to a fat tripe finely broil'd?”

choleric finely broild

“They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.”

surfeit nothing starve

“But mice, and rats, and such small deer, Have been Tom's food for seven long year.”

small seven mice

“My cake is dough: but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all, but my share of the feast.”

dough among share

“Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits.”

paunches bankrupt dainty

“I charge thee, invite them all; let in the tide Of knaves once more: my cook and I'll provide.”

provide charge invite

“Our feasts In every mess have folly, and the feeders Digest with it a custom, I should blush To see you so attir'd.”

feeders feasts digest

“But, first Or last, your fine Egyptian cookery Shall have the fame. I have heard that Julius Cæsar Grew fat with feasting there.”

egyptian feasting cookery

“Each man to his stool, with that spur as he would to the lip of his mistress; your diet shall be in all places alike. Make not a city feast of it, to let the meat cool ere we can agree upon the first place.”

mistress places stool

William Shakespeare on Eating

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