"Gourmet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... gourmet. French cooks and French prices are not the rule at his restaurant. His beer or his inexpensive native white wine he prefers to the most costly clarets or champagnes. And, indeed, it is well for him he does; for ...
— Three Men on the Bummel • Jerome K. Jerome
... more affect him than a marble monument. He seemed to accommodate his conversation to the moral structure of others, just as spirits are said to assume the shape of mortals. There were the sensualities of the gourmet for his body, and there ended his human nature, as it seemed to me. Through that semi-transparent structure I thought I could now and then discern the light or the glare of his inner life. But I ...
— Uncle Silas - A Tale of Bartram-Haugh • J.S. Le Fanu
... considered my ear with the air of a gourmet," he continued, dusting his hands on his breeches. "I told him in the rat's peculiar idiom that I was deadly poison, so ...
— Tales of the Jazz Age • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... asked, "dine off one dish at a gourmet's banquet? And why should I restrict myself to one course at the most richly-spread table in Europe? One must love at least two women to appreciate either; and, did the silly creatures but know it, a rival becomes ...
— The Valley of Decision • Edith Wharton
... satisfied the most exacting gourmet, but Hedvig was its real charm. She treated difficult theological questions with so much grace, and rationalised so skilfully, that though one might not be convinced it was impossible to help being ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
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