Spiced Quotes
20 quotes by 20 authors
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Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
— Francis Bacon
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Australians are not given to applauding tragedy unless it is at a distance like Gallipoli or Cooper's Creek, and they prefer pure heroism to be…
— Geoffrey Dutton
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I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine.
— Amy Smart
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On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Let us leave good sense behind like a hideous husk and let us hurl ourselves, like fruit spiced with pride, into the immense mouth and…
— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
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The air was cold to the lungs, the long grass dripping wet, and the herbs on it gave out their spiced astringent scent. In a…
— Isak Dinesen
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Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the…
— Herman Melville
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I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up in Queens and…
— Debi Mazar
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Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with expensive…
— Louise Brooks
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..Some of our loves and attachments are elemental and beyond our choosing, and for that very reason they come spiced with pain and regret and…
— Colm Toibin
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Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the quirky, the achingly…
— Marisha Pessl
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He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of the oak tree…
— Virginia Woolf
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Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different nationalities. Rome was…
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
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When I arrived in Beirut from Europe, I felt the oppressive, damp heat, saw the unkempt palm trees and smelt the Arabic coffee, the fruit…
— Robert Fisk
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The best calumnies are spiced with truth.
— George R. R. Martin
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In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also poets who sang…
— F. Sionil Jose
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I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of…
— Bible
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Her breath is like honey spiced with cloves, Her mouth delicious as a ripened mango.
— Srzgarakarika
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A bettre preest I trowe that nowher noon ys. He waited after no pompe and reverence Ne maked hym a spiced conscience, But Cristes loore…
— Geoffrey Chaucer
Who Wrote These Spiced Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 20 Spiced Quotes as follows: