Flavor Quote by Laurence Sterne Download Open image “Writings may be compared to wine. Sense is the strength, but wit the flavor.” — Laurence Sterne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Flavor May Wine Wit Writing
Wine writers have been around for almost as long as there has been wine, but in the past, generally speaking, most wine writing was… — Robert M. Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
Although wine when it is read somewhat lacks the savour of wine when it is drunk, wine remains a very pleasant thing both to… — William Blake Copy Share Image
A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
One thing I don't think that we have enough of in wine writing is the use of cause and effect. Whatever wine tastes like,… — Gerald Asher Copy Share Image
High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Unlike art which contains a message, wine conveys nothing, it has no intellectual or cognitive content — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
“There is an impression abroad that literary folk are fast readers. Wine tasters are not heavy drinkers. Literary people read slowly because they sample… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I was acquainted once with a gallant soldier who assured me that his only measure of courage was this: upon the first fire, in… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
A man's body and his mind, with the utmost reverence to both I speak it, are exactly like a jerkin and a jerkin's lining;… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! - long… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious. — Gail Simmons Copy Share Image
And the flavor of Pippa's kiss--bittersweet and strange--stayed with me all the way back uptown, swaying and sleepy as I sailed home on the… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The Bushes were certainly part of Texas in their mind, but they didn't have the kind of political flavor that you normally find in… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
I like to abide by the seasons and let the natural flavor in food speak for itself. I use quick cooking techniques of high… — Cat Cora Copy Share Image
I think too many times people can get rigid in life, put our blinders on, get locked into one way of thinking, and forget… — Dave Smalley Copy Share Image
I'm definitely an anomaly, but I'm making things. They're selling, say, martinis, and I'm kind of making vintage Riesling. People aren't going to sit… — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way. — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life,… — Henry Wriston Copy Share Image
Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor. — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
