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William Shakespeare Quotes about Food

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Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

William Shakespeare
Food, Cooking, Bait
William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.94

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare
Music, Food, Unrequited Love
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Food, Taste
'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 3, l. 236

The last taste of sweets is sweetest last.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Food, Sunset
'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 11

Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

William Shakespeare
Food, Home Cooking, Entrepreneur
1595 Servingman to Capulet. Romeo andJuliet, act 4, sc.2, l.6.

Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Food, Onions
William Shakespeare, Phill Evans (2009). “A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format”, p.47, Shakespeare Comic Books

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

William Shakespeare
Art, Drinking, Food
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [124]

He receives comfort like cold porridge.

William Shakespeare
Food, Cooking, Comfort
'The Tempest' (1611) act 2, sc. 1, l. 10

Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.

William Shakespeare
Food, Cooking, Culinary
William Shakespeare (1868). “The Works of William Shakspeare. Life, Glossary, &c. Reprinted from the Original Edition, and Compared with All Recent Commentators”, p.531

Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon.

William Shakespeare
Food, Eye, Smell
William Shakespeare, Barbara Hodgdon (2010). “The Taming of The Shrew: Third Series”, p.148, A&C Black

Thy food is such As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs.

William Shakespeare
Food, Sassy, Lungs
William Shakespeare, John Glover (of Cambridge?.) (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra. Cynbeline. Pericles. Poems”, p.400

Appetite, a universal wolf.

William Shakespeare
Food, Cooking, Culinary
William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.231

The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.

William Shakespeare
Food, Cooking, Quality
William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.983, BookCaps Study Guides

Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?

William Shakespeare
Food, Cooking, Culinary
William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.6021, BookCaps Study Guides

Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.

William Shakespeare
Food, Fighting, Iron
'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 7, l. [166]

Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Food, Cooking
William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.95

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