Onions Quotes

154 Onions quotes by 142 unique authors

Next to that kid, we all look like onions. — Dustin Hoffman
Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps,… — Julian Barnes
The onion is the truffle of the poor. — Unknown Author
Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second… — Warren G. Bennis
It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions. — Julia Child
I was an onion, layers and layers and layers under a thin, papery skin. If anyone had been able to cut me open, my bitter,… — Crescent Dragonwagon
Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread,… — Rex Stout
The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that… — Joseph Wambaugh
Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine...and ask me to supper. I'll not care, really, even… — M.F.K. Fisher
I was a dumpy teenager. My mum was a model and was all about looks, so I rebelled by going goth. It took me years… — Jennifer Aniston
Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best. — Bernard DeVoto
Self-pity can make one weep, as can onions. — Jerry Fodor
The (editing) work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time youd be down to its innards,… — Edward Blishen
It’s a trifle. It’s got all of these layers. First there’s a layer of ladyfingers, then a layer of jam, then custard, which I made… — Rachel
I’m trying to think of the last time I had onions. — Karl Lagerfeld
The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself. — George Ellwanger
To this day, I hate walnuts and I hate onions because on weekends when the walnuts and onions were in season, we were out there… — Scott Brooks
Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable. Chefs cut up the onions and have the ingredients lined up ahead of time and have… — Anne Burrell
I am open to the accusation that I see compost as an end it itself. But we do grow some real red damn tomatoes such… — Roy Blount, Jr.
I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like… — Erica Jong
Look around. Take the tour. Fear hangs on the wall and shame sometimes. Emotional dislocation too. But I am brave in my admission. Are you?… — Nikki Grimes
I will not move my army without onions. — Ulysses S. Grant
This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is - A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never… — William Makepeace Thackeray
The onion and its satin wrappings is among the most beautiful of vegetables and is the only one that represents the essence of things. It… — Charles Dudley Warner
There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too… — Alan Watts

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