Vinegar Quotes - Page 3

• Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Food, Book, Home

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• It's not the nineteenth century; I'm not meant to be judged on how good a housekeeper I am. Getting down on the floor with a lemon and a bucket of vinegar does not make me a better person.

  Emily Matchar

  Doe, Buckets, Better Person

  Emily Matchar (2015). “Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• My thoughts are crabbed and sallow,
  My tears like vinegar,
  Or the bitter blinking yellow
  Of an acetic star.
  Tonight the caustic wind, love,
  Gossips late and soon,
  And I wear the wry-faced pucker of
  The sour lemon moon.
  While like an early summer plum,
  Puny, green, and tart,
  Droops upon its wizened stem
  My lean, unripened heart.

  Sylvia Plath

  Broken Heart, Summer, Stars

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.266, Faber & Faber

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• She set about preparing her supper. It would have to be one of those classically simple meals, the sort that French peasants are said to eat and that enlightened English people sometimes enjoy rather self-consciously - a crusty French loaf, cheese, and lettuce and tomatoes from the garden. Of course there should have been wine and a lovingly prepared dressing of oil and vinegar, but Dulcie drank orange squash and ate mayonnaise that came from a bottle.

  Barbara Pym

  Food, Wine, Simple

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• There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must have been Drosophila.

  Alfred Sturtevant

  Science, Gnats, Nomenclature

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• A Bearnaise sauce is simply an egg yolk, a shallot, a little tarragon vinegar, and butter, but it takes years of practice for the result to be perfect.

  Fernand Point

  Food, Years, Practice

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• With sushi, it is all about balance. Sometimes they cut the fish too thick, sometimes too thin. Often the rice is overcooked or undercooked. Not enough rice vinegar or too much.

  Nobu Matsuhisa

  Cutting, Balance, Sushi

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• There is one way by which a strolling player may be ever secure of success; that is, in our theatrical way of expressing it, to make a great deal of the character. To speak and act as in common life is not playing, nor is it what people come to see; natural speaking, like sweet wine, runs glibly over the palate and scarcely leaves any taste behind it; but being high in a part resembles vinegar, which grates upon the taste, and one feels it while he is drinking.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Running, Sweet, Drinking

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The bee. Essays. Unacknowledged essays. Prefaces, introductions, etc”, p.233

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• When the flesh presents thee with delights, then present thyself with dangers; where the world possesses thee with vain hopes, there possess thyself with true fear; when the devil brings thee oil, bring thou vinegar. The way to be safe is never to be secure.

  Francis Quarles

  Oil, Temptation, Devil

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.94

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• I think Tabasco brings me pure heat and Southern kind of familiarity, along with the vinegar and the barrel-aged spices.

  Mario Batali

  Thinking, Southern, Spices

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• A dressing is not a compote A dressing is not a custard It consists of pepper and salt, Vinegar, oil and mustard.

  Ogden Nash

  Food, Oil, Cooking

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• Avoid connecting yourself with characters whose good and bad sides are unmixed and have not fermented together; they resemble vials of vinegar and oil; or palletts set with colors; they are either excellent at home and insufferable abroad, or intolerable within doors and excellent in public; they are unfit for friendship, merely because their stamina, their ingredients of character are too single, too much apart; let them be finely ground up with each other, and they are incomparable.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Home, Character, Doors

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• Stock up your pantry and your freezer with things that aren't perishable: Your favorite jar of tomato sauce that lists "tomato" as the first ingredient, lots of grains, olive oils, vinegars, tomato pastes, onions, shallots. When you go to the store, you only have to pick up meats and produce.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Oil, Meat, Tomatoes

  "Giada De Laurentiis' Slim-Cooking Secrets". Interview with Alison Prato, www.health.com. February 04, 2013.

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• I was a thorn rushing to be with a rose, vinegar blending with honey… Then I found some dirt to make an ointment that would honor my soul… Love says, “You are right, but don’t claim these changes. Remember, I am wind. You are an ember I ignite.

  Rumi

  Wind, Rushing, Rose

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• You do not get more with honey than with vinegar!

  Larry Kramer

  Honey

  "You Can Never Not Fight Back!". Interview with Alisa Solomon, www.villagevoice.com. December 7, 2004.

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• Today was a very cold and bitter day, as cold and bitter as a cup of hot chocolate, if the cup of hot chocolate had vinegar added to it and were placed in a refrigerator for several hours.

  Daniel Handler

  Chocolate, Hot, Today

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• It was like the first time i saw a cadaver. For weeks afterward the cadavers head, or what was left of it - floated up behind my eggs and bacon at breakfast and in the face of Buddy Willard, who was responsible for my seeing it in the first place, and pretty soon I felt as though I were carrying that cadavers head around with me on a string, like some black, noseless balloon stinking of vinegar.

  Sylvia Plath

  Eggs, Black, Cadavers

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• Our Garrick 's a salad; for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Oil, Agreement, Sugar

  'Retaliation' (1774) l. 11.

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• Remember what your mama told you about honey and vinegar: Be nice, and you’ll catch more flies, if nothing else.

  Cassandra King

  Nice, Honey, Mama

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• I couldn't really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire sense of humor and things like bitter and Yorkshire puddings, but I can still get my hands on salt 'n' vinegar crisps.

  Sam Riley

  Girl, Hands, Missing

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

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• Can I be blunt? Yes. Can I be diplomatic? Yes. Can I concoct a mixture of vinegar and honey when the circumstances warrant? Yes.

  Susan Rice

  Mixtures, Honey, Blunt

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Poireaux vinaigrette aux grains de caviar.” I did a quick translation. “Leeks and fish eggs in vinegar?” He grinned. “It sounds better in French.” Yeah, but did it taste better?

  Karen Chance

  Eggs, Sound, Caviar

  Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.125, Penguin

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• Sourness and bitterness come from the interfering and unappreciative mind. Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet. That is the message of The Vinegar Tasters.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Sweet, Mind, Messages

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• One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey that with twenty casks of vinegar.

  Henry IV of France

  Bait, Twenties, Honey

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• Melting pot Harlem-Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall. Dusky dream Harlem rumbling into a nightmare tunnel where the subway from the Bronx keeps right on downtown.

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, New York, Tunnels

  Langston Hughes (2002). “Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”

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