Pungent Quotes
16 quotes by 15 authors
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I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure…
— Anthony Bourdain
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Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent,…
— Louis Aragon
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When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
— Octave Mirbeau
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The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the winged gorgons, the…
— Lawrence Durrell
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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
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So I departed, leaving behind a pungent smell of brimstone. Just something to remember me by.
— Jonathan Stroud
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There is nothing more energizing than inhaling the tang of wilderness, loamy after rain, pungent with the richness of earth shuddering with life, or taking…
— Lawrence Anthony
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A man who is not touched by the earthy lyricism of hot pastrami, the pungent fantasy of corned beef, pickles, frankfurters, the great lusty impertinence…
— Herb Gardner
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Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set…
— Richard Ford
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If you would be pungent, be brief.
— Robert Southey
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you may fume and fidget as you please: but this is the best plan to pursue with you, I am certain. I like you more…
— Charlotte Bronte
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I smiled at him as best I could and pushed the paper across the table before he could change his mind. Because Henry DeVille was…
— Jodi Picoult
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She still had her bad days, no question, when the black dog of depression sniffed her out and settled its crushing weight on her chest…
— Lev Grossman
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I take a few quick sips. "This is really good." And I mean it. I have never tasted tea like this. It is smooth, pungent,…
— Amy Tan
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If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
— John Dryden
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If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
— Robert Southey
Who Wrote These Pungent Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 16 Pungent Quotes as follows: