Flavour Quotes

• Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Forgiveness, Time, Revenge

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.35, Penguin

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• In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, America, Cooking

  1976 The Art of Eating.

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• For people may not know what they think about politics in the Balkans, or the vexed question of men and women, but everyone has a definite opinion about the flavour of shredded coconut.

  Louis Simpson

  Men, Thinking, People

  Louis Simpson (2003). “The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001”, p.293, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

  William Cowper

  Life, Giving, Inspire

  The Task bk. 2 "The Timepiece" l. 606 (1785) See Behn 1

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• Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

  George Eliot

  Truth, Rough, Bites

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3961, Delphi Classics

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• But don’t forget that memory is like salt: the right amount brings out
  the flavour in food, too much ruins it. If you live in the past all the
  time, you’ll find yourself with no present to remember.

  Paulo Coelho

  Memories, Past, Finding Yourself

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• Ideally, I'd like every issue to include a diverse group of stories that meet the qualifications sketched above, but covering a wide range of specific matter and flavour.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Issues, Groups, Covering

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• There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies.

  Joseph Conrad

  Lying, Mortality, Heart Of Darkness

  Joseph Conrad “Heart of Darkness”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Anyway, yes, telephones but not mobile phones, fish and chips still wrapped in actual newspaper and still with some kind of flavour, people visiting each other without having to consult their appointment diaries, not being able to record anything from the television; if you missed it you missed it - these were all the kinds of thing that made up the normality of the seventies.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Phones, People, Diaries

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• It is important to experiment and endlessly seek after creating the best possible flavours when preparing foods.  That means not being afraid to experiment with various ingredients

  Rocco DiSpirito

  Mean, Creating, Important

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• A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Shade, Too Short

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.903, Delphi Classics

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• For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

  Quentin Crisp

  Love, Funny, Sex

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• Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.

  Mike Myers

  Essence, Canada, Transcendentalism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.

  Lance Henriksen

  Scary, Littles, Stuff

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• Talleyrand said that two things are essential in life: to give good dinners and to keep on fair terms with women. As the years pass and fires cool, it can become unimportant to stay always on fair terms either with women or one's fellows, but a wide and sensitive appreciation of fine flavours can still abide with us, to warm our hearts.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Friendship, Appreciation, Heart

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.

  Joseph Conrad

  Hate, Lying, World

  Joseph Conrad (2006). “Heart of Darkness and Other Stories”, p.48, Collector's Library

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• Your past experiences will flavour your future ones, that is human nature.

  Deborah

  Past, Human Nature, Your Future

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• The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.

  Juvenal

  Giving, Joy, Pleasure

  Juvenal (1871). “The satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...”, p.460

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• Act without striving. Work without interfering. Find the flavour in what is flavourless.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Strive, Interfere

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• ... when the Spaniards persecuted heretics they may have been crude, but they were not being unreasonable or unpractical. They were at least wiser than the people of to-day who pretend that it does not matter what a man believes, as who should say that the flavour and digestibility of a pudding will have nothing to do with its ingredients.

  Rebecca West

  Believe, Men, Ideas

  Rebecca West (1928). “The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West”

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• Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.

  Salman Rushdie

  People, Way, Cooks

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• The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it was first seasoned.

  Horace

  Wine, Long, Firsts

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• Go deep into meditation. and be meditation I mean silence, awareness, witnessing. You can meditate any time of the day, you can meditate working, walking, doing things. Meditation is not something separate from life; it should not be separate, otherwise it remains a little artificial. Meditation should be spread all over life. You should walk in meditation, you should sit in meditation; that means silently, fully aware. Slowly slowly it becomes your very flavour, then the bridge is created.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Bridges, Silence

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• I am not interested in immortality but only in tea flavour.

  Lu Tong

  Tea, Immortality, Not Interested

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• Whenever I sit with a bowl of soup before me, listening to the murmur that penetrates like the distant song of an insect, lost in contemplation of the flavours to come, I feel as if I were being drawn into a trance.

  Junichiro Tanizaki

  Song, Listening, Soup

  "Privy counsels" by A.C. Grayling, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2002.

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