Onions Quotes - Page 5

• When a couple of young people strongly devoted to each other commence to eat onions, it is safe to pronounce them engaged.

  James Montgomery Bailey

  Best Love, Couple, People

  James Montgomery Bailey (1873). “Life in Danbury: Being a Brief But Comprehensive Record of the Doings of a Remarkable People, Under More Remarkable Circumstances, and Chronicled in a Most Remarkable Manner”, p.230

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• Bert's wallet is like an onion. Any time he opens it, he starts crying.

  Brendan Morrison

  Hockey, Nhl, Cry

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• Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. What's important is the result, the taste of the borscht.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Vegetables, Important, Beets

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• Ice Water? Get some Onions - that'll make your eyes water!

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Eye, Ice Water

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• Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Government, Different, Layers

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• I was an onion, layers and layers and layers under a thin, papery skin. If anyone had been able to cut me open, my bitter, irritating juices would have stung their eyes, and they would have cried. Although I couldn't cry myself, much at the time. But no one would cut me open.

  Crescent Dragonwagon

  Eye, Cutting, Skins

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• Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine...and ask me to supper. I'll not care, really, even if your nose is a little shiny, so long as you are self-possessed and sure that wolf or no wolf, your mind is your own and your heart is another's and therefore in the right place.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Heart, Wine, Self

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• I was a dumpy teenager. My mum was a model and was all about looks, so I rebelled by going goth. It took me years of peeling back the onion to finally stop using make-up as a mask and feel comfortable in my skin.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Teenager, Years, Skins

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• It’s a trifle. It’s got all of these layers. First there’s a layer of ladyfingers, then a layer of jam, then custard, which I made from scratch, then raspberries, more ladyfingers, then beef sauteed with peas and onions, then a little more custard, and then bananas, and then I just put some whipped cream on top!

  Rachel

  Scratches, Beef, Jam

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• I’m trying to think of the last time I had onions.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Thinking, Trying, Lasts

  "Karl Lagerfeld On His Hair, Women In Thongs & The Last Time He Cried" by Hilary Moss, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2011.

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• The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself.

  George Ellwanger

  Food, Cooking, Tribes

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• I am open to the accusation that I see compost as an end it itself. But we do grow some real red damn tomatoes such as you can't get in the stores. And potatoes, beans, lettuce, collards, onions, squash, cauliflower, eggplant, carrots, peppers. Dirt in you own backyard, producing things you eat. Makes you wonder.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Real, Eggplant, Squash

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• I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.

  Erica Jong

  Thinking, Self, Vegetables

  Erica Jong (1991). “Becoming light: poems, new and selected”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is - A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never could outdo; Green herbs, red peppers, mussels, saffron, Soles, onions, garlic, roach, and dace; All these you eat at Terre's tavern, In that one dish of Bouillabaisse.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Cooking, Roaches, Taverns

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1870). “Catherine. Titmarsch among pictures and books. Fraser miscellanies. Christmas books. Ballads”, p.557

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• There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Lying, Eye

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.5, Souvenir Press

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• Most folks call them green onions, but
  they're really scallions.

  Stan Freberg

  Green, Folks

  Song: Christmas Dragnet

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• You don't learn knife skills at cooking school, because they give you only six onions and no matter how hard you focus on those six onions there are only six, and you're not going to learn as much as when you cut up a hundred.

  Bill Buford

  School, Cutting, Knives

  Bill Buford (2013). “Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-maker and Apprentice to a Butcher in Tuscany”, p.67, Random House

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• Don't bother to argue anything on the Internet. And I mean, ANYTHING.... The most innocuous, innocent, harmless, basic topics will be misconstrued by people trying to deconstruct things down to the sub-atomic level and entirely miss the point.... Seriously. Keep peeling the onion and you get no onion.

  Vera Nazarian

  Mean, People, Missing

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• SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as... the Cow in India; the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Religious, Character, Cat

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2506, Delphi Classics

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• Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from their piteous and wonderful difficulties without help of mine, for indeed their trouble is sufficient as it is, whereas an I tried to help I should but damage their cause the more and yet mayhap not live myself to see the desolation wrought.

  Mark Twain

  Dog, Math, Names

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.224, Mark Twain

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• New rule: Tulips aren't flowers. They're some kind of gay onion.

  Bill Maher

  Flower, Gay, Kind

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• The best kind of onion soup is the simplest kind.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Soup, Kind, Simplest

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• As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.

  Victoria Moran

  Mushrooms, Kitchen, Tomatoes

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• Each person bears a fear which is special to him. One man fears a close space and another man fears drowning; each laughs at the other and calls him stupid. Thus fear is only a preference, to be counted the same as the preference for one woman or another, or mutton for pig, or cabbage for onion.

  Michael Crichton

  Fear, Stupid, Men

  Michael Crichton (1997). “The 13th Warrior.: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan, Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922.”

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• She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up. The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, "Let go-it's my onion," and as soon as she said, "my onion," the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.

  E. M. Forster

  Letting Go, Angel, Flames

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