Basil Quotes

• A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.

  Thomas More

  Food, Men, Vegetables

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• I believe in the magic of preparation. You can make just about any foods taste wonderful by adding herbs and spices. Experiment with garlic, cilantro, basil and other fresh herbs on vegetables to make them taste great.

  Jorge Cruise

  Believe, Vegetables, Magic

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• I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

  Oscar Wilde

  Thinking, Arguing, Lost

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.12, Wordsworth Editions

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• Pounding fragrant things - particularly garlic, basil, parsley - is a tremendous antidote to depression. But it applies also to juniper berries, coriander seeds and the grilled fruits of the chilli pepper. Pounding these things produces an alteration in one's being - from sighing with fatigue to inhaling with pleasure. The cheering effects of herbs and alliums cannot be too often reiterated. Virgil's appetite was probably improved equally by pounding garlic as by eating it.

  Patience Gray

  Cheer, Food, Vegetables

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• If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.

  Frances Mayes

  Land, Car, Yards

  "'Tuscan Sun' author on Italy's pleasures". Interview with A. Pawlowski, www.cnn.com. March 10, 2010.

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• Going to Europe as a budding cook opened my eyes to food in a different way. When I got to Italy, the first thing I did was put my little basil plants in the ground and watch them turn into big, healthy bushes.

  Frances Mayes

  Eye, Europe, Healthy

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• What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset.

  Pete Townshend

  Sunset, Reality, Glasses

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• And I did a movie called Basil with Jared Leto and Christian Slater.

  Claire Forlani

  Christian

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• That's definitely true! It was before my father died, so I can't attribute it to an obsession with death. When I was seven, I loved those old Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone. The Scarlet Claw was one of my faves. And I loved all the Halloween's and that film about the haunted house... Burnt Offerings, with Oliver Reed. Every birthday party was a slumber party and we'd watch horror films.

  Cate Blanchett

  Father, Halloween, Party

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• Virtues are in the middle, the royal way about which the saintly elder (Saint Basil the Great) said, "Travel on the royal way and count the miles." As I said, the virtues are at the midpoint between excess and laxness. That is why it is written, "Do not turn to the right or the left" (Prov 4:27) but travel on the "royal way" (Num. 20:17). Saint Basil also says, "The person who does not allow his thoughts to incline towards excess or deprivation but directs it to the midpoint, that of virtue, is upright in heart."

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Truth, Heart, Way

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• I would sit in at a jazz brunch [at sweet Basil] with Eddie Chamblee, who was a great tenor player. Really a kind man. The whole band was great.

  Jon Gordon

  Sweet, Player, Men

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• When I was thinking about what we could do in terms of what production values of Broadway might be able to add to the show, I had this thought that it would be really cool if we had a coup de théâtre. What would they want? And then I was like, an amazing, enormous tuna puppet that was like 30 by 40 feet would be pretty incredible. So I called up Basil Twist, and he got really excited immediately and started sketching out his idea, and I think it's a real highlight of the show.

  Alex Timbers

  Real, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Names, Cowardice, Trade

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 1 (1891)

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• The scent organ was playing a delightfully refreshing Herbal Capriccio - rippling arpeggios of thyme and lavender, of rosemary, basil, myrtle, tarragon; a series of daring modulations through the spice keys into ambergris; and a slow return through sandalwood, camphor, cedar and newmown hay (with occasional subtle touches of discord - a whiff of kidney pudding, the faintest suspicion of pig's dung) back to the simple aromatics with which the piece began. The final blast of thyme died away; there was a round of applause; the lights went up.

  Aldous Huxley

  Simple, Keys, Light

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Ernie Hayes, Jimmy Lewis, and either Belton Evans or Khalil Mahdi on drums [were in Sweet Basil]. All those guys really took care of me.

  Jon Gordon

  Sweet, Guy, Care

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• The repeat run of Fawlty Towers (BBC2) drew bigger audiences than ever and deservedly so. Statistical surveys reveal that only the television critic of the Spectator is incapable of seeing the joke, which is that Basil Fawlty has the wrong temperament to be a hotel proprietor, just as some other people have the wrong temperament to be television critics.

  Clive James

  Running, People, Television

  Clive James (2017). “Glued To The Box”, p.127, Pan Macmillan

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• Savory...that's a swell word. And Basil and Betel. Capsicum. Curry. All great. But Relish, now, Relish with a capital R. No argument, that' the best.

  Ray Bradbury

  Argument, Curry, Savory

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• Illy [Ray Illingworth] had the man-management skills of Basil Fawlty

  Darren Gough

  Men, Skills, Rays

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• I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Play, Wife, Secret

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.64, GENERAL PRESS

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• I was also sitting in from the middle of senior year of high school at Sweet Basil, it was a great club in New York.

  Jon Gordon

  Senior, Sweet, New York

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• I went in [Sweet Basil band] and played with them, maybe half the gig for almost eight years or more.

  Jon Gordon

  Sweet, Eight, Years

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• Bad Girl!" She chided. "I'm pretty sure Boris is a boy," I said. "Oh, I know," Mrs. Basil E. assured me. "I just like to keep him confused," Then she and Boris headed off with my future.

  David Levithan

  Girl, Confused, Boys

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• On daughter Apple's accent: She says Mummy instead of Mommy, I don't mind that. I will if she starts saying basil and pasta the English way, as that really drives me nuts.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Daughter, Mother, Nuts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean, uptight, incompetent bully comes naturally to me.

  John Cleese

  Character, Mean, Bully

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, 1997.

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• Basil..discovered a guild of abortionists, or sagae, that were doing a booming trade in Caesarea, and the surrounding environs. They provided herbal potions, pessaries, and even surgical remedies for women who wished to avoid child-bearing. The bodies of the children were then harvested and sold to cosmetologists in Egypt, who used the collagen for the manufacture of various beauty creams.

  Grant George

  Children, Egypt, Pro Life

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