Gluttony Shakespeare Quotations on Gluttony
FALSTAFF: You make fat rascals, Mistress Doll.
DOLL TEARSHEET: I make them! gluttony and diseases make them; I
make them not.
2 Henry IV 2.4.37
If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked!
1 Henry IV 2.4.464, Falstaff to Hal
So, so, thou common dog, didst thou disgorge
Thy glutton bosom of the royal Richard;
And now thou wouldst eat thy dead vomit up,
And howl'st to find it.
2 Henry IV 1.3.101-4, Archbishop of York
Let him be damned, like the glutton! pray God his
tongue be hotter!
2 Henry IV 1.2.35-6
They are as sick that surfeit
with too much as they are that starve with nothing.
The Merchant of Venice 1.2.5-6, Nerissa to Portia
Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day,
Or gluttoning on all, or all away.
Sonnet 75
They surfeited with honey and began
To loathe the taste of sweetness.
1 Henry IV 3.2.72-3, Henry IV to Hal
I have long dream'd of such a kind of man,
So surfeit-swell'd, so old and so profane.
2 Henry IV 5.5.51-2, Henry V, of Falstaff
Eight wild-boars roasted whole at a breakfast, and
but twelve persons there; is this true?
Antony and Cleopatra 2.2.220-1, Mecaenas to Domitius Enobarbus
He hath eaten me out of house and home;
he hath put all my substance into that fat belly of
his.
2 Henry IV 2.1.66-8, Mistress Quickly speaking of Falstaff to the Lord Chief Justice
