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“Animals are murdered to produce meat; vegetables are torn up, peeled, and chopped; most of what we eat is treated with fire; and chewing is designed remorselessly to finish what killing and cooking began. People naturally prefer that none of this should happen to them. Behind every rule of table etiquette lurks the determination of each person present to be a diner, not a dish.”

Source: The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners

“Eating is aggressive by nature, and the implements required for it could quickly become weapons; table manners are, most basically, a system of taboos designed to ensure that violence remains out of the question.”

Violence Eating Weapons Tables Remains Manners Aggressive Taboo Table Manners

Book:The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners

Source: The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners

“Sometimes one sees people butter their slices of bread with long, slow, admiring strokes in the same way in which Tom Sawyer's friends whitewashed the fence. Never butter an entire slice of bread at one time.”

People Way Long Sometimes Eating Bread Manners One Time Toms Strokes Fence Admiring Sawyer

Book:Etiquette Every Child Should Know

Source: Etiquette Every Child Should Know

“Basil Stag Hare tut-tutted severely as he remarked to Ambrose Spike, 'Tch, tch. Dreadful table manners. Just look at those three wallahs, kicking up a hullaballoo like that! Eating's a serious business.”

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Book:Redwall

Source: Redwall

“At least, you two have decent manners," says Effie as we're finishing the main course. "The pair last year ate everything with their hands like a couple of savages. It completely upset my digestion." ... My mother taught Prim and me to eat properly, so yes, I can handle a fork and knife. But I hate Effie Trinket's comment so much I make a point of eating the rest of my meal with my fingers. Then I wipe my hands on the tablecloth. This makes her purse her lips tightly together.”

“Beginning with a critique of my own limbs, which she said, justly enough, were nothing to write home about, this girl went on to dissect my manners, morals, intellect, general physique, and method of eating asparagus with such acerbity that by the time she had finished the best you could say of Bertram was that, so far as was known, he had never actually committed murder or set fire to an orphan asylum.”

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Book:Right Ho, Jeeves

Source: Right Ho, Jeeves

“Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.”

Food Eating Cooking Noise Manners Culinary Soup Good Manners

Author:Bennett Cerf

“Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer of property.”

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Book:Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of

Source: Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of