Quote by Rex Stout

“I quite like eggs,” I replied firmly, well aware that the enchantments he described would all turn strange and sour, even deadly, in the…

— Margaret Rogerson

“Food should be like this—elemental, honest, a little cruel. It should make no apologies for what it was, and it shouldn’t allow the eater…

— Jade Chang

“Wil ate without enthusiasm. His bacon tasted like nothing. Like a dead animal, fried. His eggs, aborted chickens.”

— Max Barry

“You cackle a lot, but don't lay any eggs.”

— Peter St. John

“I have a weakness for fresh eggs.”

— Joseph Heller

“Three or four days later he was still thinking about seal flipper pie. Remembered the two raw eggs Petal gave him. That he invested…

— E. Annie Proulx

“He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food cake.”

— Raymond Chandler

“It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.”

— Dorothy Parker

“Mr. Lecky could see well enough to eat. He brought his chair over and sat down gratefully while he consumed, but with appetite now,…

— James Gould Cozzens

“His mouth formed an O with lips torn angry in laying duck's eggs from a chicken's rectum.”

— Nathanael West

“She arranged the bacon on a platter and then debated what to do with the ten-inch biscuit that had actually been four small biscuits…

— Judith McNaught

“I made an egg salad sandwich and took a bite of it over the open silverware drawer. A piece of egg salad fell in…

— Nicholson Baker