(4 quotes found)
“The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa.”
Charles Baudelaire
“A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.”
Phillip W. Haberman Jr.
“The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide”
Josh Billings
“The British, he thought, must be gluttons for satire: even the weather forecast seemed to be some kind of spoof, predicting every possible combination of weather for the next twenty-four hours without actually committing itself to anything specific.”
David Lodge
