"The average cooking in the average hotel for……" — Karel Capek
"The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody can beam and warble while chewing pressed beef smeared with diabolical mustard. Nobody can exult aloud while ungluing from his teeth a quivering tapioca pudding."
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Karel Capek
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38 Quotes by Karel Capek
Karel Capek has 38 quotes on this site.
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You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to…
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Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything…
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There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.
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Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle.
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I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no…
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I find that a real gardener is not a man who cultivates flowers; he is a man who cultivates the…
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Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that…
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Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.
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There are several ways to lay out a little garden; the best way is to get a gardener.
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