Top 100 Quotes About Basil
#1. Savory ... that's a swell word. And Basil and Betel. Capsicum. Curry. All great. But Relish, now, Relish with a capital R. No argument, that' the best.
Ray Bradbury
#2. After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
E.L. Konigsburg
#3. I spend these days in confusion, trying my best to fathom the significance of that shade....
Trying to fathom the suitable answers to my ambiguities, if they can be called as such." - Basil
Amna Iqbal
#4. Herbs and Seasonings Considered Safe For Dogs: Alfalfa Aloe Vera Anise Burdock Basil Calendula Catnip Caraway Seed Chamomile Cinnamon Cilantro Coriander
Elizabeth A. Patterson
#5. I suppose you have heard the news, Basil? said Lord Henry that evening as Hallward was shown into a little private room at the Bristol
Oscar Wilde
#6. The sense of his own beauty came on him like a revelation. He had never felt it before. Basil Hallward's compliments
Oscar Wilde
#8. Waning. He was perfectly safe there. Nor, indeed, was it the death of Basil Hallward that weighed most upon his mind. It was the living death of his own soul that troubled him. Basil had painted the portrait that had marred his life.
Oscar Wilde
#9. Going to Europe as a budding cook opened my eyes to food in a different way. When I got to Italy, the first thing I did was put my little basil plants in the ground and watch them turn into big, healthy bushes.
Frances Mayes
#10. FACT FILE Excess salt can cause water retention and increase blood pressure. Restrict salt to 6 g, roughly about 1 teaspoon, per day. Substitute extra salt with herbs and spices such as oregano, basil, coriander and parsley, or use seasonings like lemon, garlic or pepper.
Namita Jain
#11. We're big fans of the show on BBC, and some of the greatest actors in film and television have done this character, from Basil Rathbone to Nicol Williamson to Michael Caine. (Executive producer) Rob Doherty came in with the pitch last season, it was immediately a show that we gravitated towards.
Nina Tassler
#12. Warm, enticing scents were floating down, basil and oregano and tomato. It made Wes long for something, something he couldn't place. A happy childhood, a home.
Sarah Addison Allen
#13. Clever name by the way Basil Pearl, spicy and cultured, sweet jewels with a twist of savory."
~ Ron Shaw, The Ron Shaw Show
Ron Shaw
#14. I fell in love with Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone and Hitchcock and Orson Welles and John Huston.
John Logan
#15. I believe in the magic of preparation. You can make just about any foods taste wonderful by adding herbs and spices. Experiment with garlic, cilantro, basil and other fresh herbs on vegetables to make them taste great.
Jorge Cruise
#16. Other herbs such as basil, rosemary, thyme, sage, marjoram and chervil all make wonderful additions to meals and bring with them many health benefits as well. These
Stephan Domenig
#17. And her mother says I'm handsome. That's really all her mum ever says to me. "Don't you look handsome, Simon."
What would she say to Baz? "Don't you look handsome, Basil. Please don't slaughter my family with your hideous fangs.
Rainbow Rowell
#18. tree in bloom, a white farmhouse - potted basil in the kitchen
Nancy Reisman
#20. If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
Frances Mayes
#21. Whose fault is it, then? Dennis Compton's (Basil Fawlty)
John Cleese
#22. Although these early Christian authors subordinated science and the study of nature to the needs of religion, they often indicated an interest in nature, as did Basil, that transcended the mere ancillary status that the study of nature was customarily accorded.
Edward Grant
#23. The next day there was still no sign of Sugar's 5A neighbor, although the window boxes had been rearranged overnight, the mint harvested and Thai basil planted in its place. Again, the window was open and the heavenly scent of something deliciously cakelike was swirling around the rooftop.
Sarah-Kate Lynch
#24. It is astonishing how much enjoyment one can get out of a language that one understands imperfectly. - Basil Gildersleeve D
Ann Patty
#25. I trembled. I was done. This was it. I wanted to die, right here in the kitchen, beside my precious basil.
Scott Hildreth
#26. I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
Oscar Wilde
#27. Too much of yourself in it! Upon my word, Basil, I didn't know you were so vain; and I really can't see any resemblance between you,
Oscar Wilde
#28. Ah, my dear Basil, that is exactly why I can feel it. Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. And
Oscar Wilde
#29. Relax," Lucian said dryly. "Bricker will not leave without me. The SUV is - "
"What?" Basil asked when his brother paused with his arm half raised, shock crossing his features.
"The little shit just drove away without me," Lucian said with amazement.
Lynsay Sands
#30. was the living death of his own soul that troubled him. Basil had painted the portrait that had marred his
Oscar Wilde
#31. What would you say, Harry, if I told you that I had murdered Basil? said the younger man. He watched him intently after he had spoken.
Oscar Wilde
#32. But, even with all her differences, Mrs. Basil did not appear to Lenora to differ so very much from herself. She was truthful, honest and, for the rest, just a woman. And Lenora had a vague sort of idea that, to a man, all women are the same after three weeks of close intercourse.
Ford Madox Ford
#33. Bad Girl!" She chided.
"I'm pretty sure Boris is a boy," I said.
"Oh, I know," Mrs. Basil E. assured me. "I just like to keep him confused," Then she and Boris headed off with my future.
David Levithan
#34. Nothing, Basil. I'll see you in a few,"
Fine, and it's Lord Basil."
Even in the bedroom?"
Especially in the bedroom.
Adrian Phoenix
#35. Each of us has heaven and hell in him, Basil, cried Dorian with a wild gesture of despair.
Oscar Wilde
#36. Illy [Ray Illingworth] had the man-management skills of Basil Fawlty
Darren Gough
#37. Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.
Oscar Wilde
#39. It is your best work, Basil, the best thing you have ever done,
Oscar Wilde
#40. I have been right, Basil, haven't I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare's plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.
Oscar Wilde
#41. What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset.
Pete Townshend
#42. In the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordinary personal beauty, and in front of it, some little distance away, was sitting the artist himself, Basil Hallward, whose sudden disappearance some years
Oscar Wilde
#43. Never discount good intentions, for good intentions may be all one has to offer. - Eilish in "No-Till" by Basil Pearl.
Basil Pearl
#44. Tip: To avoid bruising the basil, Mama tore the leaves into pieces with her fingers. Chopping is fine, but you won't have basil-scented fingers.
Johnny Carrabba
#45. You dislike Basil because, without his art, his life is horribly plain. Unlike Dorian who has made an art out of his life. Basil produces art; Dorian consumes it and lets it overwhelm him.
Abed Yaman
#46. Don't bury your sense of wonder. It's a rare thing, and one of the things I adore most about you" -Basil
Lauren DeStefano
#47. Our pasta primavera was born when I promised fresh pasta with tomatoes and basil to critic Craig Claiborne, but we had no tomatoes.
Sirio Maccioni
#48. Basil Grant and I were talking one day in what is perhaps the most
perfect place for talking on earth
the top of a tolerably deserted
tramcar. To talk on the top of a hill is superb, but to talk on the
top of a flying hill is a fairy tale.
G.K. Chesterton
#49. Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean uptight incompetent bully comes naturally to me.
John Cleese
#50. Working on the native-herb garden in the front corner of the yard. Already thriving: thyme, hyssop, spearmint, lemon balm, fennel, chamomile, marjoram. Must add: lavender, ambrosia, valerian, mugwort, pennyroyal, gillyflower, and (when it's warmer) sweet basil.
Neal Stephenson
#51. A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
Thomas More
#52. Also, if your dish looks generally fucked up, just sprinkle on some chopped fresh herbs like parsley, basil, or cilantro at the end and it will look all artisan and shit. Works every time.
Thug Kitchen
#53. He once called her his basil plant; and when she asked for an explanation, said that basil was a plant which had flourished wonderfully on a murdered man's brains.
George Eliot
#54. Some of the plants have obituary names: Iris, Basil, Rue, Rosemary, and Verbena. Some, like meadowsweet and cowslips, sweet flag and spikenard, are like the names of Shakespeare fairies.
Chuck Palahniuk
#55. My signature fragrance would be herbal - basil mixed with rosemary and coriander. Some big stars have got perfume lines that smell really bad. They've got it all wrong.
Valerie June
#56. New York may be splendidly gay or squalidly gay but prince or pauper, it's gay always ... Yes, gay is the word ... but frantic. I can't get used to it. They forget death, Basil; they forget death in New York.
William Dean Howells
#57. The pesto and angel hair are warm in the bowl on my lap, the fragrances of olive oil and basil blending the exotic and familiar, equal parts sunny Tuscan hillside and hometown dirt. A meal like this makes you want to live forever, if only for the scent of warm pesto in January.
Michael Perry
#58. Capital," cried Basil. "I could eat a stag, antlers and all. I say they they do make a wonderful nosebag for us wounded heroes, y'know.
Brian Jacques
#59. If it makes you feel better, though, Basil is the first on my list if we're ever stranded in deep space and forced to eat one another. Aeons are most delicious.
Rachel Bach
#60. Basil would never go for this - me chasing after an accused murderer in the darkness. He says there's nothing wrong with me, but it's entirely possible he hasn't been paying enough attention.
Lauren DeStefano
#61. Basil Stag Hare tut-tutted severely as he remarked to Ambrose Spike, 'Tch, tch. Dreadful table manners. Just look at those three wallahs, kicking up a hullaballoo like that! Eating's a serious business.
Brian Jacques
#62. On daughter Apple's accent: She says Mummy instead of Mommy, I don't mind that. I will if she starts saying basil and pasta the English way, as that really drives me nuts.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#63. Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be - in other ages, perhaps.
Oscar Wilde
#64. And I did a movie called Basil with Jared Leto and Christian Slater.
Claire Forlani
#65. The sun penetrates crystal and makes it more dazzling. In the same way, the sanctifying Spirit indwells in souls and makes them more radiant. They become like so many powerhouses beaming grace and love around them.
Saint Basil
#66. O sinner, be not discouraged, but have recourse to Mary in all you necessities. Call her to your assistance, for such is the divine Will that she should help in every kind of necessity.
Saint Basil
#67. Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.
Basil Bunting
#68. We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience.
Saint Basil
#69. Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose.
Basil Bunting
#70. Benedict and Bernard and the other true monastic peacemakers of history have been effective because they have acted from a deep source of peace within themselves, dating a context for peace. This is the contribution a Christian man or woman of peace can make.
M. Basil Pennington
#71. As the leaf takes its time finding the ground so must I.
Cory Basil
#72. First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.
Saint Basil
#73. Soon after you're dead - we're not sure how long - but not long, you'll be united with the most ecstatic love you've ever known. As one of the best things in your life was human love, this will be love, but much more satisfying, and it will last forever.
Basil Hume
#74. The mason stirs.
Words!
Pens are too light.
Take a chisel to write.
Basil Bunting
#75. We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the Divine Nature; for that which is foreign by nature does not share in the same honors.
Saint Basil
#76. It is God's hand which has guided everything, and it is God whom we must thank above all.
Basil Moreau
#77. We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We try to get some advantage from the skill of the one and the position of the other. Walk in the sun, and your shadow will follow you, whether you will or not.
Saint Basil
#78. The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
Saint Basil
#79. God is with us to be utilized. His Power, His Love, His Thought, His Love, His Thought, His Presence must be at our disposal, like other great forces, such as sunshine and wind and rain. We can use them or not, as we please. We can use them in proportion to our ability.
Basil King
#80. Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
Basil Bunting
#81. Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune.
Saint Basil
#82. Our doom is, to be sifted by the wind, heaped up, smoothed down like silly sands. We are less permanent than thought.
Basil Bunting
#83. What's the fun in standing in the outskirts of love and feeling superior? There's no shame in having got it wrong. Whereas its a shame when you don't even give yourself the chance of getting it right. Better to have loved and lost...
Priya Basil
#84. What is there astonishing in the death of a mortal? But we are grieved at his dying before his time. Are we sure that this was not his time? We do not know how to pick and choose what is good for our souls, or how to fix the limits of the life of man.
Saint Basil
#85. Life is too short to try and glue together broken plates that were cheap in the first place.
Cory Basil
#86. I cannot persuade myself that without love to others, and without, as far as rests with me, peaceableness toward all, I can be called a worthy servant of Jesus Christ.
Saint Basil
#87. The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.
Basil Bunting
#88. It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.
Oscar Wilde
#89. He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.
Saint Basil
#90. Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is the rare one with ears in his head.
Basil Bunting
#91. No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.
Basil W. Maturin
#92. Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.
Saint Basil
#93. Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?
Saint Basil
#94. Do not, as is usually the case, thrust the care of the common weal upon your neighbor; then, as each one in his own thoughts makes light of the matter, all find to their surprise that they have drawn upon themselves by their neglect a personal misfortune.
Saint Basil
#96. We are summoned not only to intimacy but to take possession of our very oneness with the Son of God in the inner life of the Trinity in the communication of the very Love of Father and Son, the Most Holy Spirit. This is what centering prayer is about.
M. Basil Pennington
#97. Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.
Basil Hume
#98. The safe and cultural method of eating crackers in bed is to wear a diver's suit instead of pajamas.
Basil Wolverton
#99. We never get to love by hate, least of all by self-hatred.
Basil W. Maturin
#100. When someone steals a person's clothes, we call him a thief. Should we not also give the same name to the one who could clothe the naked but does not?
Saint Basil
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