(9 quotes found)
“Have wholesome, but not costly Food, and be rather cleanly than dainty in ordering it.”
William Penn
“Too much plenty makes mouth dainty”
Benjamin Franklin
“He hath not fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink.”
William Shakespeare
“Plenty makes dainty!”
Scottish Proverb
“Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.”
Bible
“'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.”
“These are very dainty and superrefined, but really vile.”
Manolo Blahnik
“Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg, / Which is as white and hairless as an egg.”
Robert Herrick