Bread And Cheese Quotes

• I eat whatever I want. I like bread and cheese and wine, and that makes my life fun and enjoyable.

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  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Fun   Wine   Want  

  "The Real Gwyneth" by Justine Picardie, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 1, 2012.

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• Epicurus recommends bread and cheese as the staple, and his emphasis is more on avoiding pain than on seeking pleasure, insofar as pleasure-seeking tends to be followed by painful after-effects.

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  Catherine Wilson

  Pain   Pleasure Seeking   Bread  

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  2008

• The waiter brought fresh-baked bread and cheese, a bottle of sparkling water for Annabeth, and a Coke with ice for me (because I’m a barbarian).

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  Rick Riordan

  Ice   Water   Annabeth  

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• A whole new thing. A forging of the humble parts of bread and cheese into a greater whole. I call it...a cheese-trap.

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  Joe Abercrombie

  Humble   Bread   Cheese  

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• Bachelor's fare: bread and cheese, and kisses.

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  Jonathan Swift

  Food   Kissing   Cooking  

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1778). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Notes Historical and Critical”, p.182

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• A meal of bread, cheese and beer constitutes the perfect food.

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  Elizabeth I

  Funny   Beer   Perfect  

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• "There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, flourishing his bread-and-cheese knife in the air, "in the human heart that had better not be wibrated..."

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  Charles Dickens

  Heart   Air   Knives  

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.106

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• The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. A companion with whom I was sailing one very windy but bright moonlight night, when the stars were few and faint, thought that a man could get along with them,-though he was considerably reduced in his circumstances,-that they were a kind of bread and cheese that never failed.

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  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars   Night   Men  

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1261, Delphi Classics

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• I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and cheese: those are my four food groups.

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  Daniel Radcliffe

  Navy   Meat   Groups  

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• Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

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  Charlotte Bronte

  Children   Thinking   Soul  

  Charlotte Bronte, K. M. Weiland (2014). “Jane Eyre”, p.65, "F+W Media, Inc."

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• I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.

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  Anthony Trollope

  Real   Rocks   Romance  

  Anthony Trollope (1999). “Can You Forgive Her?”, Oxford University Press, USA

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