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Appetite Quotes - Page 3

My appetite comes to me while eating.

Michel de Montaigne, Bayle St. John (1866). “Essays [tr. by Cotton”, p.282

Success only feeds the appetite of aggression.

Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.794, Best Books on

Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite.

A Month in the Country Act IV (transl. Constance Garnett)

Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke (1791). “A Letter from Mr. Burke, to a Member of the National Assembly: In Answer to Some Objections to His Book on French Affairs”, p.69

Turtle makes all men equal.

Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4011, Delphi Classics

Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.16, University of Georgia Press

You can fill my appetite without me taking up a bite.

Song: What's That You're Doing?, Album: Tug of War

No sauce equals appetite.

Muriel Lester (1937). “It Occurred to Me”

It's always nice to anticipate working in something that you know people will have an appetite for.

"Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher Reprise Iconic Roles in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. December 16, 2015.

All things require skill but an appetite.

George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.303

Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt.

Charles Fort (2016). “The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration”, p.45, Penguin

What is the motive which operates in every man's breast to counteract the impulse towards the gratification of his wants and appetites?

Jean Baptiste Say (1834). “A Treatise on Political Economy: Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.211

The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.

Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.927, Harvard University Press

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate

William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.409