Banish the onion from the kitchen and the pleasure flies…

Banish (the onion) from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Its presence lends color and enchantment to the most modest dish; its…

— Elizabeth Robins Pennell

Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Man is like an onion. His potential is exposed one layer at a time until all he is, is known by all.

— Myles Munroe

We're still growing into that place of higher consciousness; we are becoming a global conscience. The idea is to unravel the onion and let…

— Jon Anderson

The onion being eaten, yea though it be boyled, causeth head-ache, hurteth the eyes, and maketh a man dimme sighted, dulleth the senses, ingendreth…

— John Gerard

Indeed, you become what you eat. In which case I am an onion. Layered, slightly sour and guaranteed to bring tears to the eyes.

— Tobsha Learner

In onion is strength; and a garden without it lacks flavour. The onion, in its satin wrappings, is among the most beautiful of vegetables;…

— Charles Dudley Warner

Take care to chop the onion fine.

— Laura Esquivel

Fully stripped down, an onion is a pile of scattered layers; it has no center.

— Richard Eder

If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. (Melisandre of Asshai)

— George R. R. Martin

“Eventually we found ourselves in the middle of an onion field. When you’re hungry and don’t know where and when your next meal is…

— Duff McKagan

My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and…

— Anonymous

I never felt ostracized or made to feel strange by obsessing over 'The Onion' or 'Calvin and Hobbes.' That was considered completely normal.

— Simon Rich

The onion and its satin wrappings is among the most beautiful of vegetables and is the only one that represents the essence of things.…

— Charles Dudley Warner

Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.

— Juliette Binoche