fat quotes

Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in. See also Connolly 233:82.

- Sir Kingsley Amis
  One Fat Englishman, ch.3.

You can have yourcake and eat it: the only trouble is you get fat.

-Julian Patrick Barnes
  Flaubert's Parrot, ch.7.

   I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis 45:18.

Thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Deuteronomy 32:15.

Theyshall still bring forth fruit inold age; they shall be fat and flourishing.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 92:14.

A good report maketh the bones fat.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs15:30.

   Who's your fat friend?

- George Bryan called Beau Brummell Brummel
c.1813  Of the Prince Regent. Remark addressed to his companion, whom the Prince had acknowledged while studiously ignoring Brummell. Quoted in  Jesse Life of George Brummell (1844), vol.1.

Imprisoned inevery fat manathinoneiswildlysignalling to be let out.

- Cyril Vernon Connolly
  The Unquiet Grave, pt.2.

‚Pero la verdad es que estoy cansada, horriblemente cansada de ser la esposa femenina de ese animal masculino que se rasca, pierde el pelo sistema  ticamente y canta tangos pasados de moda!† Quisiera†quisiera engordar, fumar un puro y enviudar de una manera indolora y elegante. The truth is, I'm tired, frightfully tired of being the feminine spouse to the masculine animal who scratches himself, systematically loses his hair and sings outdated tangos!† I'd like† I'd like to get fat, to smoke cigars and to become a widow in a painless and elegant fashion.

-Jorge D|  az
El cepillo de dientes ( The Toothbrush), act1.

I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.

-John Dryden
  The Maiden Queen, act 3, sc.1.

it's a sex object if you're pretty and no love or love and no sex if you're fat

-Nikki in full Yolande CorneliaGiovanni,Jr Giovanni
  Black Judgement,'Woman Poem'.

Would you rather have butter or guns? †preparedness makes us powerful.Butter merely makes us fat. See Goebbels 359:7.

- HermannWilhelm Goering
  Speech, Hamburg.

Fair, fat, and forty.

- Sir Walter Scott
  St Ronan'sWell, ch.7.

Next was November, he full gross and fat, As fed with lard, and that right well might seem; For, he had been a fatting hogs of late.

- Edmund Spenser
  The Faerie Queen,'Mutability', canto 7, stanza 40.

A little round, fat, oily man of God, Was one I chiefly marked among the fry: He had a roguish twinkle in his eye.

-James pseudonym 'BV',ByssheVanolis Thomson
  The Castle of Indolence, canto1, stanza 69. Scottish  poet  born  in  Port  Glasgow.  He  trained  as   an  army schoolmaster  but  was  dismissed from  army  service  in 1862  for alcoholism.  He  worked  in  London  as  a  poet,  journalist  and critic,  and  published  his  greatest  work  The  City   of  Dreadful Night in1874.

Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow room. See Connolly 233:82, Orwell 628:52.

- Evelyn Arthur StJohn Waugh
  Officers and Gentlemen, interlude.