Famous MFK Fisher Quotes

  • …having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat… – MFK Fisher

    …having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat…– MFK Fisher

  • You may feel that you have eaten too much…But this pastry is likefeathers – it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive! – MFK Fisher

    You may feel that you have eaten too much…But this pastry is likefeathers – it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!– MFK Fisher

  • There is communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk. – MFK Fisher

    There is communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.– MFK Fisher

  • I cannot count the good people I know who, to my mind, would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers. – MFK Fisher

    I cannot count the good people I know who, to my mind, would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.– MFK Fisher

  • First we eat, then we do everything else. – MFK Fisher

    First we eat, then we do everything else.– MFK Fisher

  • Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. – MFK Fisher

    Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.– MFK Fisher

  • Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken. – MFK Fisher

    Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.– MFK Fisher

  • …after rare beef and wine, when the lobes turn red, was the time to ask favours or tell bad news. – MFK Fisher

    …after rare beef and wine, when the lobes turn red, was the time to ask favours or tell bad news.– MFK Fisher

  • I let myself exist mainly through my children… [but] I could not even guess at the lives my children led. – MFK Fisher

    I let myself exist mainly through my children… [but] I could not even guess at the lives my children led.– MFK Fisher

  • Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman. – MFK Fisher

    Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.– MFK Fisher