Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Appetite
Here’s neither want of appetite nor mouths,
Pray Heaven we be not scant of meat or mirth.
Scott.—Peveril of the Peak, Chapter III.
Appetite comes with eating, said Angeston.
Rabelais.—Gargantua I. 5; So, Hamlet, Act I. Scene 2.
[Where, referring to his mother’s affection for the late King, he exclaims, “Heaven and earth! must I remember? Why, she would hang on him as if increase of appetite had grown by what it fed on.”]
Why, at this rate, a fellow that has but a groat in his pocket, may have a stomach capable of a ten-shilling ordinary.
Congreve.—Love for Love, Act II. Scene 7.
A stomach as sharp as a shark’s; never was in finer condition for feeding.
Foote.—The Patron, Act I.
Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
Shakespeare.—Much Ado About Nothing, Act II. Scene 3. (Benedick.)