Maurice Bowra famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.
Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.
All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.
Food simply isn't important to me.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.
I spend more time in the kitchen than I have in the dining room, for obvious reasons, however, I just want to sit and indulge.

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