Kindness Quote by Adam Smith

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to…

— Adam Smith

“You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. Living, as you all do,…

— Oscar Wilde

“The immense majority of even the noblest persons' actions have self-regarding motives, nor is this to be regretted, since if it were otherwise, the…

— Bertrand Russell

“Have you ever been faced with the clear certainty that the culinary arts have a great propensity to rendering themselves unsavory?”

— Nicole Sager

“I began this lifelong lesson. If human beings eat a thing, and if I am not so violently repelled by my own upbringing that…

— Maya Angelou

“And you dared to go counter to your father's wishes? They should have been a command to you. Give me one reason, only one,…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you…

— Michael Pollan

“We can't all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the pie.”

— Amah Lambert

“...there is no brew so deadly that it cannot at certain moments become precious and invigorating by giving us just the stimulus that was…

— Marcel Proust

“In that moment, cooking became a greater joy than I had ever known. I was telling a story through the food we created. It…

— John Currence

“In those days food was never just sustenance; the very act of cooking knit our disparate lives together.”

— Sasha Martin

“...but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands,…

— M.F.K. Fisher