Parsnips Quotes

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

  Walter Scott

  Southern, Fine Words, Fine

  Sir Walter Scott (1855). “The Waverley Novels: The bride of Lammermoor. A legend of Montrose. Ivanhoe”, p.229

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I like food, I like stripping vegetables of their skins, I like to have a slim young parsnip under my knife.

  Stevie Smith

  Food, Vegetables, Knives

  6 Copy quote

• I love root vegetables: carrots, parsnips, and turnips.

  Julia Child

  Vegetables, Roots, Carrots

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Fine Words, Half, Sauce

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.148

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• What is this?” he went on now, spearing an unfortunate object on a fork and raising it to eye level. “This… this… thing?” “A parsnip?” Jem suggested. “A parsnip planted in Satan’s own garden.” said Will. He glanced about. “I don’t suppose there’s a dog I could feed it to.” “There don’t seem to be any pets about,” Jem—who loved all animals, even the inglorious and ill-tempered Church—observed. “Probably all poisoned by parsnips,” said Will.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dog, Eye, Animal

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.558, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• And that is ... how they are. So terribly physically all over one another. They pour themselves one over the other like so much melted butter over parsnips. They catch each other under the chin, with a tender caress of the hand, and they smile with sunny melting tenderness into each other's face.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Hands, Melting, Faces

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Sea and Sardinia: Top Novelist Focus”, p.6, 谷月社

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Simple,' Tummeler replied.' Blueberries is one of the great forces o'good in the world.' How do you figure that?' said Charles. Well,' said Tummeler, 'have you ever seen a troll, or a Wendigo, or,' he shuddered, 'a Shadow-Born ever eating a blueberry pie?' No,' Charles admitted. There y'go,' said Tummeler. It's cause they can't stand the goodness in it.' Can't argue with you there,' said Charles. Foods is good and evil, just like people, or badgers, or even scowlers.' Evil food?' said Charles. Parsnips,' said Tummeler, 'Them's as evil as they come.

  James A. Owen

  Simple, Pie, People

  30 Copy quote

• The evidence from both approaches, statistical and experimental, does not appear sufficiently significant to me to warrant forsaking the pleasure of smoking. As a matter of fact, if the investigations had been pointed toward some material that I thoroughly dislike, such as parsnips, I still would not feel that evidence of the type presented constituted a reasonable excuse for eliminating the things from my diet. I will still continue to smoke, and if the tobacco companies cease manufacturing their product, I will revert to sweet fern and grape leaves.

  Harry S.N. Greene

  Sweet, Science, Smoking

  13 Copy quote

• In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips.

  Red Smith

  Ice Cream, Politics, Entertainment

  12 Copy quote