Palatable Quotes

55 quotes by 51 authors

I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it. — Jarvis Cocker
Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or watered down, in… — Louis Kronenberger
No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it. — Winston Churchill
My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours. — Alan Rickman
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars. — Gwendolyn Brooks
It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting… — Eliza Acton
Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor. — Terrence Howard
WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can be made; . . . also for bread. The French are said to eat… — Ambrose Bierce
The foods that are recommended today are as palatable as a steady diet of wet blotters. — Groucho Marx
The ability to make hard truths palatable is one that every long-lived co-leader has mastered. — David A. Heenan
The New World Order is a more palatable name for the Anglo American world empire. It's the planetary domination of London, New York, Washington over… — Alex Jones
An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness -- much as plums have to be put… — E. M. Forster
Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other… — William Makepeace Thackeray
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of… — Brander Matthews
BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty. — Ambrose Bierce
I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry, of its… — Adam Weishaupt
Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable. — William McIlvanney
The drug which makes sexuality palatable in popular mythology. — Germaine Greer
POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only… — Ambrose Bierce

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