Famous quotes by British people involving food or sharing?

Question

I'm designing a packet of potato crisps (chips) and the package opens up into a handy sharing box. I would like the quotes to appear in the folds which are hidden when the box is closed.

Answer 1

British Food Quotes
“I'll bet what motivated the British to colonize so much of the world is that they were just looking for a decent meal."
Martha Harrison


"Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all -- they produced an oyster."
Saullust, Roman historian, referring to the oyster beds in East Anglia.


"Britain is the only country in the world where the food is more dangerous than the sex."
Jackie Mason


“All in all, I think the British actually hate food, otherwise they couldn't possibly abuse it so badly. Americans, on the other hand, love food but seldom care what it tastes like.”
Bill Marsano


“The British Empire was created as a by-product of generations of desperate Englishmen roaming the world in search of a decent meal.”
Bill Marsano


“Village life makes stale bread so common that toasting has become a national habit restricted to the British Isles and those countries which have been colonized by Britain.”
H.D. Renner, 'The Origin of Food Habits’ (1944)

Answer 2

Sharing Food Quotes

Answer 3

"It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs."
-- W. S. Gilbert (British Librettist)

"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."
-- George Orwell (British Author)

"Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody."
-- Samuel Pepys (British Diarist)

"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."
-- Oscar Wilde (British Author)

"The more he cast away the more he had."
-- John Bunyan (British Author)


A FEW THAT AREN'T BRITISH:
"Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhill. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received."
-- Walter Benjamin (he was German)

"Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly."
-- M. F. K. Fisher (she was American)

"He who eats alone chokes alone."
-- Arabian Proverb Sayings of Arabian Origin