"But always, to her, red and green cabbages……" — Edna Ferber
"But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that."
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Edna Ferber
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39 Quotes by Edna Ferber
Edna Ferber has 39 quotes on this site.
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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
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If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have…
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America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful,…
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It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.
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In New York the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks…
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Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to…
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I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment,…
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I'm tired of hearing you men say that this and that and the other isn't woman's work. Any work is…
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A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve.
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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it…
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But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.
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More Burgundy Quotes
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It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that…
— Joan of Arc
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There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them.
— Isak Dinesen
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I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.
— Jonathan Swift
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An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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The odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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If Claret is the king of natural wines, Burgundy is the queen.
— Moliere
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This is brain surgery. Ski masks on my bullets, let 'em commit brain burglary. Emergency, it's an emergency. Someone in…
— Lil Wayne
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Anchorman' is my favorite movie of all time and Ron Burgundy is one of my favorite characters of all time.…
— Eva Mendes
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If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers…
— Jay McInerney
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The best advice I can give people when they buy Burgundy, which is a bit of a roulette game, is…
— Daniel Johnnes
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I would happily die with a bottle of white Burgundy in my mouth,
— Julia Child
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