Dishes Quotes

454 Dishes quotes by 367 unique authors

In the centre of a spacious table rose a pastry as large as a church, flanked on the north by a quarter of cold veal,… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
I learned respect for womanhood from my father's tender caring for my mother, my sister, and his sisters. Father was the first to arise from… — Robert D. Hales
Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour that man and… — Rose Macaulay
From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... . And why is this done? For no other reason,… — Adam Sedgwick
Don't get bogged down with all the details of how it's going to come together. Just do the dishes. And watch the momentum build. — Brian J. White
We must admit that the divine banquet of the brain was, and still is, a feast with dishes that remain elusive in the blending, and… — Unknown Author
Banish (the onion) from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Its presence lends color and enchantment to the most modest dish; its absence… — Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Revenge is a dish that is best served cold. — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them. — Karl Kraus
Gus: "It tastes like..." Me: "Food." Gus: "Yes, precisely. It tastes like food, excellently prepared. But it does not taste, how do I put this… — John Green
Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures. — Benjamin Franklin
The old saying of work hard, play hard really works for me. For me it's all about focus. To get the Fire Starter Sessions digital… — Danielle LaPorte
The greatest dishes are very simple. — Auguste Escoffier
There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood what women… — Germaine Greer
To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer.' Rattlesnake is, in fact,… — Alistair Cooke
Liaison usually involving two people and their dirty dishes. — Richard Summerbell
Holy is the dish and drain, the soap and sink, and the cup and plate and the warm wool socks, and the cold white tile,… — Carrie Newcomer
I was washing dishes at the Greyhound bus station at the time and I said, 'Awap bop a lup bop a wop bam boom, take… — Little Richard
It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell… — Saint Francis de Sales
One night, Don Henley called, and I told him, 'I'm washing dishes and bike shorts.' He said, 'It's in the domestic exercises of life that… — Sheryl Crow
I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events. — Leonard Cohen
He's a real gentleman. I bet he takes the dishes out of the sink before he pees in it. — Shirley MacLaine
I loved the domesticity of my life as a struggling actor. When I wasn't going to auditions, I could do things like cook dishes from… — Jenna Fischer
Britain is no longer totally a white place where people ride horses, wear long frocks, and drink tea. The national dish is no longer fish… — Unknown Author
The opinion of the public is sacred. The director is a cook who merely offers different dishes to them and has no right to insist… — Werner Herzog

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