beef quotes

Oh! The roast beef of England, And old England's roast beef!

- Henry Fielding
Grub Street Opera, act 3, sc.3.

'Oh, where are you going to, all you Big Steamers, With England's own coal, up and down the salt seas?' 'We are going to fetch you your bread and your butter, Your beef, pork, and mutton, eggs, apples and cheese.'

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  'Big Steamers'.

Give but an Englishman his whore and ease, Beef and a sea-coal fire, he's yours forever.

-Thomas Otway
  Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered, act 2, sc.3.