The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating…

I should like a parsley sandwich. To the best of my knowledge they are not in season.

— Edward Gorey

“It was a good thing I recognized you or I might have had a lovely meal of you with some parsley. And potatoes.”

— G.A. Aiken

“Roses climbed the shed, entwined with dark purple clematis, leaves as glossy as satin. There were no thorns. Patience's cupboard was overflowing with remedies,…

— Ellen Herrick

I don't like to leave what I'm going to eat in other people's hands, so I'll pack my own lunch. I chop up a…

— Miranda Kerr

Pounding fragrant things - particularly garlic, basil, parsley - is a tremendous antidote to depression. But it applies also to juniper berries, coriander seeds…

— Patience Gray

Parsley goes really nicely with everything. It adds a nice lightness; it wakes up a dish.

— Antoni Porowski

If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?

— George Carlin

“parsley. Vegetables these days are chopped into tiny grass.”

— Adam Gopnik

It's a comfort to always find pasta in the cupboard and garlic and parsley in the garden.

— Alice Waters

Raw parsley makes me gag. It's the same for my mum and my sister. Which is funny because apparently parsley was used to suffocate…

— Daisy Lowe

Approaching the stove, she would don a voluminous apron, toss some meat on a platter, empty a skillet of its perfectly cooked a point…

— Bert Greene

It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley…

— Dorothy Parker

I do a chimichurri sauce with garlic, parsley, olive oil, and red and black pepper. You just mince the garlic and the parsley and…

— Julie Gonzalo

“the particular plant longed for by the wife, which was originally parsley, was a well-known abortifacient.”

— Philip Pullman

For many a pasty have you robbed of blood, And many a Jack of Dover have you sold That has been heated twice and…

— Geoffrey Chaucer