cheese quotes

Cheese for dessert is rather like Paradise Lost in that everyone thinks he ought to like it, but still you don't notice too many people actually curling up with it.

- Peg Bracken
  The I Hate to Cook Book, ch.9.

A great deal of contemporary criticism readsto me like a man saying: 'Of course I do not like green cheese: I am very fond of brown sherry'.

- G(ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton
  All I Survey,'On  Jonathan Swift'.

The French will only be united under the threat of danger. How else can one govern a country that produces 246 different types of cheese?

- Charles de Gaulle
  Speech. Quoted in Les Mots du Ge  ne  ral (1962).

A maggot must be born i'the rotten cheese to like it.

- George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans Eliot
  Adam Bede, ch.32.

Cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.

- Clifton Fadiman
  Any Number Can Play,'The Cheese Stands  Alone'.

'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'.

And they brought an Owl, and a useful Cart, And a pound of Rice, and a CranberryTart, And a hive of silvery Bees. And they brought a Pig, and some green Jack-daws, And a lovely Monkey with lollipop paws, and forty Bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree, And no end of Stilton Cheese.

- Edward Lear
Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and  Alphabets,'The Jumblies'.

Botticelli isn't a wine, you Juggins! Botticelli's a cheese!

-Punch

I should be the last person to say anything against temptation, naturally, but we have a proverb down here 'in baiting a mouse-trap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse'.

-Saki pseudonym of  Hector Hugh Munro
The Square Egg,'The Infernal Parliament' (published1924).

   You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheesetoasted, mostlyand woke up again, and here I were.

- Robert Louis Stevenson
  Ben Gunn toJim Hawkins.Treasure Island, ch.15,'The Man of the Island'.