Book Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “Women can spin very well, but they cannot write a good book of cookery.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Cookery Cooking Good book Wells Writing
Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All sorts of articles and letters appear in the papers about women. Profound questions are raised concerning them. Should they smoke? Should they work?… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing. — Amy Clampitt Copy Share Image
My recipes aren't geared towards women; my books are marketed towards women because women are the biggest market for weight loss, weight management and… — Bethenny Frankel Copy Share Image
No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you… — Greg Rucka Copy Share Image
“Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that their suitors… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
Judging by the vast amount of cookbooks printed and sold in the United States one would think the American woman a fanatical cook. She… — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
“Women think they cook better than men. Hmm, I just laugh. Men allowed women to be operating the kitchen because we love women so… — Ifeanyi Dede Copy Share Image
Women should be able to come out and narrate stories from their point of view. — Suhasini Maniratnam Copy Share Image
The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
