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Appetite: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

I look for ghosts; but none will force Their way to me; 'tis falsely said That even there was intercourse Between the living and the dead. m. of Margaret.

And gazed around them to the left and right With the prophetic eye of appetite.— BYRON — Don Juan. Canto V. St. 50.

His thirst he slakes at some pure neighboring brook, Nor seeks for sauce where Appetite stands cook.— CHURCHILL — Gotham III. L. 133.

Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin Surprise thee, and her black attendant Death,— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. VII. L. 546.

Appetite comes with eating, says Angeston.— RABELAIS — Works. Bk. I. Ch. V.

Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth, that he cannot endure in his age.— Shakespeare — Much Ado About Nothing. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 250.

Epicurean cooks Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite. C.— Shakespeare — Antony and Cleopatra. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 24.

Now good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both!— Shakespeare — Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 38.

Read o'er this; And after, this; and then to breakfast, with What appetite you have.— Shakespeare — Henry VIII. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 201.

The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite.— Shakespeare — Romeo and Juliet. Act II. Sc. 6. L. 11.

Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite?— Shakespeare — Richard II. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 296.

And through the hall there walked to and fro. A jolly yeoman, marshall of the same, Whose name was Appetite; he did bestow Both guestes and meate, whenever in they came, And knew them how to order without blame.— SPENSER — Faerie Queene. Bk. II. Canto IX. St. 28.