Fine Quote by William Makepeace Thackeray

There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.

— Walter Scott

“The man who did the shouting at the P.S.U.C. post down on our right was an artist at the job. Sometimes, instead of shouting…

— George Orwell

It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There's nothing like a roast parsnip, you don't want them too chewy though.

— Roddy Llewellyn

Who's that Yorkshire guy? James Martin. I went on his show and I had to phone my doctor while he was cooking and I…

— Paul Whitehouse

“...the restaurant itself is weird especially because of a big raunch mad thicklipped sloppy young Fillipino woman sitting alone at the end of the…

— Jack Kerouac

Once, at Thanksgiving, a neighbor wandered in while my cousin Lisa worked on a turkey, shearing meat off its frame and sliding the steaming…

— Jenna Wortham

I may forgive people easily, but guess what butter cup, carma's a bitch.

— Anonymous

“There are very few men and women, I suspect, who cooked and marketed their way through the past war without losing forever some of…

— M.F.K. Fisher

“Ruining people. I love the way the phrase rolls around on my tongue and inside my mouth. Ruining people is delicious. We're all hungry,…

— M.E. Thomas

“My attention was like cooking butter, not spreadable at the best of times. And when it was spreadable, it could destroy your toast by…

— Shoeburn Ruffet

“Melted cheese is a culinary veil...a foxhole where mediocrity can hide.”

— Alissa Nutting