Flavour You Quotes

#1. Backstory is like a flavour you can't quite pick, lurking in the layers of a curry. You know it's there and it enhances the flavour, but it's intangible and fleeting. Use it sparingly!

Sandy Vaile

#2. I'm a lot less travelled as an adult than I was as a child, but I think living in far flung places gives you a perspective on the world and people that adds flavour to your writing.

Sarah Pinborough

#3. Mother' (with a short scornful laugh), 'you will make me confess. The only time I saw Miss Hale, she treated me with a haughty civility which had a strong flavour of contempt in it. She held herself aloof from me as if she had been a queen, and I her humble, unwashed vassal. Be easy, mother.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#4. Even the multiplex audience wants this flavour. No big-budget film can be a commercial hit until it does well both at multiplexes and single screens. 'Ghajini' and 'Dabangg' are examples.

Rohit Shetty

#5. Zain poured skimmed milk over Weetabix, throwing in a handful of cashew nuts to add flavour. A glass of grapefruit juice to go with it, and green tea. He tried to avoid caffeine. Maybe the green pills were loaded with it, anyway. Alligator balls, snake venom and caffeine. He

Alex Caan

#6. Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.

Anthony Trollope

#7. I always pan-fry sprouts - it retains texture and enhances flavour.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#8. I am not interested in immortality but only in tea flavour.

Lu Tong

#9. With me the process is much more like bird-watching than like either talking or building. I see pictures. Some of the pictures have a common flavour, almost a common smell, which groups them together. Keep quiet and watch and they will begin joining themselves up.(quoting C.S. Lewis)

E.J. Kirk

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

Virginia Woolf

#11. Of course, fairies are all imported in North America. We have no native fairies. The Little People do not long survive importation unless they go to California and grow large and beautiful, but haven't much flavour, like the fruit and the film stars.

Robertson Davies

#12. 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

#13. I regard texture similar to the function of taste buds in our mouths. But in a visual form. Texture does create a specific flavour which affects our senses.

Adamo Macri

#14. I collect imported teas, I have a few cupboards full! It's like wine, each has it's own flavour and you get into their little nuances.

Maggie Grace

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

Laozi

#16. 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

#17. The first reason why I started to use the [electric] keyboard is because I really like the bending sound of the guitar and bass player. I can't bend the piano sound. I really like the feel behind it. I feel it adds flavour and character to my music.

Hiromi

#18. You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?

Nandan Nilekani

#19. Let China's earth, enrich'd with colour'd stains,
Pencil'd with gold, and streak'd with azure veins,
The grateful flavour of the Indian leaf,
Or Mocho's sunburnt berry glad receive.'
MRS. BARBAULD.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#20. Grace is the first mouthful of each course - chewed and chewed until there's nothing left of it. And all the time you're chewing you pay attention to the flavour of the food, to it's consistency and temperature, to the pressures on your teeth and the feel of the muscles in your jaws.

Aldous Huxley

#21. I write to taste life twice; to savour the flavour of sweet times gone by, or spit out the bitterness before it multiplies.

Aisha Mirza

#22. You know,
That the only difference,
Between, you n' I,
Is the flavour, of choice,
And the dimension, of thoughts,
Through the desire, of our eyes,

Ashley Byrnes

#23. The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?

Horace

#24. Walking into the crowd was like sinking into a stew - you became an ingredient, you took on a certain flavour.

Margaret Atwood

#25. 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

#26. You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavour to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by millions of people.

Olivia Laing

#27. Slice Mango - something that, you know, is a phenomenal drink, but mango is not a flavour that is easily liked by many people in the West. People in Latin America like it. But we do a lot of Mango in India.

Indra Nooyi

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

Juvenal

#29. The gift of the Truth beats all other gifts. The flavour of the Truth beats all other tastes. The joy of the Truth beats all other joys, and the cessation of desire conquers all suffering

Gautama Buddha

#30. The meat smelt rank and was very tough, the soup was greasy and of a curious flavour, but it was a wonderful meal after all these hungry weeks.

Wilfred Thesiger

#31. One can always find inflationary models to explain whatever phenomenon is represented by the flavour of the month.

Joseph Silk

#32. 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

#33. There are different flavours of sexiness.

Queen Latifah

#34. The 1950s is a key decade in the 20th Century. Each year has a distinctive flavour.

Sara Sheridan

#35. Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.

Alberto Manguel

#36. One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage.

Tobias Smollett

#37. I like both Greek and Egyptian. More Greek stories have survived, so we know more about them. They've always been my favorite. On the other hand, I like the Egyptian stories because they're not as commonly known and they have an exotic flavour.

Rick Riordan

#38. Miso makes a soup loaded with flavour that saves you the hassle of making stock.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#39. The tang of tamarind is a great way both to flavour and lighten up slow-cooked savoury dishes.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#40. The flesh of animals who feed excursively is allowed to have a higher flavour than that of those who are cooped up. May there not be the same difference between men who read as their taste prompts and men who are confined in cells and colleges to stated tasks?

Samuel Butler

#41. Felicity, felicity - how shall I say it? - is quaffed out of a golden cup in every latitude: the flavour is with you - with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.

Joseph Conrad

#42. There is a charm in making a stew, to the unaccustomed cook, from the excitement of wondering what the result will be, and whether any flavour save that of onions will survive the competition in the mixture.

Annie Besant

#43. The flavour of something fresh out of the ground is 10 times better than something that's been flown halfway across the world.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

#44. Man's nature is not a bit the same as wines. He loses flavour as his life declines. We drink the oldest wine that comes our way. Old men get nasty, old wines make us gay.

Alexis Sanchez

#45. I don't decide my politics based on the flavour of the month.

Nandan Nilekani

#46. The flavour of life is love. The salt of life is also love.

Mariama Ba

#47. We Are The Salt Of The Earth, We should Add Godly Flavour to People's Lives via Our Words

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#48. I adore recipes that make use of one cut of meat or a whole animal to create a complex dish, loaded with flavour.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#49. You did not sell nor wanted to buy me Ice cream.
You gave me my most favourite flavour.
Petra Hermans

Petra Hermans

#50. I always do things that are not the flavour of the season. And that's why people like me.

Sonam Kapoor

#51. As one who appreciated the tragic side of eating, it seemed to him that anything other than fruit for dessert implied a reprehensible frivolity, and cakes in particular ended up annihilating the flavour of quiet sadness that must be allowed to linger at the end of a great culinary performance.

Manuel Vazquez Montalban

#52. Given as much law as that man will be able to do anything and go anywhere, an the only trace of pessimism left in the human prospect today is a faint flavour that one was born so soon.

H.G.Wells

#53. I eat soup noodles for comfort. In fact, noodles of any kind. It's a food that is very easy to eat; it's very soothing and comfortable, too. If I could choose any, I'd say buckwheat was my favourite: it has a very good flavour and is healthy, too.

Nobu Matsuhisa

#54. Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.

Doris Lessing

#55. Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows.

Charles Caleb Colton

#56. 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

#57. It's great that a song now costs exactly the same as a pack of gum and lasts exactly the same amount of time before it loses its flavour and you have to spend another buck.

Jonathan Franzen

#58. Me in a cape? I don't fancy that. Tight tights? Nah! I don't think that's right for me. I just respond more to true stories; that's my flavour.

Jason Statham

#59. You know, either I'm too fat or I'm flavour of the month. I don't feel either, but maybe I'm both, who knows?

Beth Ditto

#60. It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#61. 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

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

Horace

#63. For my part, I am almost contented just now, and very thankful. Gratitude is a divine emotion: it fills the heart, but not to bursting: it warms it, but not to fever. I like to taste leisurely of bliss: devoured in haste, I do not know its flavour.

Charlotte Bronte

#64. Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The heavier the lashing of the rain and the ghastlier the details, the better the flavour seems to be.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#65. Too much brightness blinds the eyes. Too much sound deafens the ears. Too much flavour ruins the tongue. Chasing desires to excess turns your mind towards madness, and valuing precious things impairs good judgment.

Lao-Tzu

#66. Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.

Yotam Ottolenghi

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

Deborah Cater

#68. For injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that, being tasted less, they offend less; benefits ought to be given little by little, so that the flavour of them may last longer.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#69. The main influence on a child's palate may no longer be a parent but a series of food manufacturers whose products - despite their illusion of infinite choice - deliver a monotonous flavour hit, quite unlike the more varied flavours of traditional cuisine.

Bee Wilson

#70. Sometimes it's good to remember how bad food can be, so you can enjoy the concept of flavour to the fullest.

John Oliver