"Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels.……" — Frederic Raphael
"Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled."
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Frederic Raphael
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14 Quotes by Frederic Raphael
Frederic Raphael has 14 quotes on this site.
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Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.
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Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.
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The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are…
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Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't…
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The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their texts may…
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Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning.
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Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior…
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One can watch hours and hours of TV without actually losing interest, but, as with Chinese food, one is rarely…
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Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are…
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People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.
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The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting…
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As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become…
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According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I've heard that Minnesota is…
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The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
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I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you…
— Julia Cameron
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Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating…
— Tony Campolo
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If you're wearing a Bluetooth thing and you've got that thing on your belt, you are working for somebody else.…
— Drew Carey
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When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to…
— John le Carre
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Superman don't need no seat belt.
— Muhammad Ali
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I will not accept a new wave of fiscal retrenchment, of belt-tightening, without asking people at the top to make…
— Nick Clegg
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(About importance of focusing on one sport at a time) I've never tried to do that, we have more of…
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When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as…
— Dorothy Wordsworth
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He's too nervous to kill himself. He wears his seat belt in a drive-in movie.
— Neil Simon
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He who has lost his money-belt will go where you wish.
— Horace
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