Meat Quotes

“To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly. It was agreeable too – it really was – to see him cut it off so smooth and juicy. There was nothing savage in the act, although the knife was large and keen; it was a piece of art, high art; there was delicacy of touch, clearness of tone, skilful handling of the subject, fine shading. It was the triumph of mind over matter; quite.”

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) ‘Martin Chuzzlewit’

Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.

Fran Lebowitz

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

John Cleese

Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

Julia Child

Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.

Denis Leary

I've always been obsessed by beef jerky.

Elizabeth Hurley

You can never put too much pork in your mouth as far as I'm concerned.

Lewis Black

When I was a kid, I used to think pork chops and karate chops were the same thing.

Shane Koyczan