Quote#Happiness
Are these the choice dishes the Doctor has sent us?
Quote byDavid Garrick · 1717–1779
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Epigram on Goldsmith’s Retaliation. Vol. ii. p. 157. Compare: "God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat", Thomas Tusser, A Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (1557); "God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks", John Taylor, Works, vol. ii. p. 85 (1630)..
English (original)
Are these the choice dishes the Doctor has sent us? Is this the great poet whose works so content us? This Goldsmith’s fine feast, who has written fine books? Heaven sends us good meat, but the Devil sends cooks?
— David Garrick
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