Eating Quotes

You cannot eat your cake and have your cake: And store’s no sore.[translation by John Willis Clark]Giving and keeping require brains.[translation by John Ormsby][Y el dar y el tener, seso ha menester.]

I made a point of eating so fast I never kept the other people waiting who generally ordered only chef’s salad and grapefruit juice because they were trying to reduce. Almost everybody I met in New York was trying to reduce.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.[Manger, en effet, c’est s’approprier par destruction.]

The animals you eat are not those which cat others. You do not cat these carnivorous beasts; you imitate them. You are hungry only for innocent and gentle animals who do no harm to anyone, who become attached to you. who serve you. and whom you devour as a reward for their services.[Les animaux que vous mangez ne sont pas ceux qui mangent les autres: vous ne les mangez pas, ces animaux carnassiers, vous les imitez: vous n’avez faim que des bêtes innocentes et douces qui ne font de mal à personne, qui s’attachent à vous, qui vous servent, et que vous dévorez pour prix de leurs services.]

The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN.