Early morning Quote by Elizabeth David

I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do…

— Yann Martel

Fig season is a joyous time of year for me. Back in my Paris days, the markets would be filled with piles of these…

— Rachel Khoo

“The proper way to eat a fig, in society, Is to split it in four, holding it by the stump, And open it, so…

— dh lawrence

O excellent! I love long life better than figs.

— William Shakespeare

Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a…

— Epictetus

“The fig tree grows its flowers strangely inside out, concealed within the soft interior of the fruit. Erszébet imagines the fig's hidden fairy weight…

— Jody Shields

I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango.…

— Yotam Ottolenghi

“Summertime in the french countryside is the smell of ripening fig trees and the taste of wild blackberries.”

— Vicki Archer

“Her gaze dims as her nostalgia for Palermo overcomes her. Those smells of seaweed dried by the sun, of capers, of ripe figs, she…

— Dacia Maraini

In the Garden of Eden, figuring out what to wear was easy and the fig leaves were environmentally friendly. Today, it's much harder to…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute fruit uncelebratedly…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I eat Fig Newtons by the sleeve!

— Brian Regan