Gourmand Quotes

Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate de fois gras.

I'm a big eater.

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

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.

I am a gourmet. I cannot stay away from my favorite dishes.

I like eating yummy things.

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

I love to eat, and if I could, I'd eat every second of my life.

There are those people that eat to live and those that live to eat. I am of the latter, as many of you already know. To me, eating is an adventure.

I go to the fanciest restaurants in the world and try them out. I like to see these chefs that are wizards do their thing. I like two types of food: cheap fast food - In-N-Out Burger, Taco Bell, stuff like that - or expensive food. Anything in between just bothers me.

I'm not really a gourmet. I like to try new things.

On a man, I love Tom Ford's Tobacco Vanille. But I wear Orchid Soleil - I love a sweet smell.

After eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction; a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine; a gourmet, repressing his burp, criticizes the food in the same magazine; a gourmand belches happily and tells everybody where he ate; a glutton empraces the white porcelain alter, or more plainly, he barfs.

No one raps about food like I do. I rap about fine dishes - like, all kinds of things that only real chefs and real foodies are going to know about.

I'm kind of obsessed with food. I like to eat. When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour.

I love all food. All of it. I wish I could be a professional eater.

I'm the farthest thing from a foodie or a food snob. Those people terrify me.

I love cookbooks. I collect them.

'Greedy gut' is my middle name. I love food, and I love parts.

I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating.