Quotes About Knives And Forks

#1. My mother was a waitress in a Lyons Corner House, but she married up. She was keen on bettering herself. She taught me how to use the right knives and forks and behave properly.

Charles Dance

#2. Even the knives and forks had a social clatter as they went on to the table; and the chicken and ham had a cheerful and joyous fizzle in the pan, as if they rather enjoyed being cooked than otherwise

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#3. In the 1860s, Emperor Napoleon III of France commissioned aluminium cutlery to be laid out for his most distinguished guests. Less important visitors had to make do with the gold knives and forks.

Yuval Noah Harari

#4. If you see someone lying out knives and forks consistently, but then one day those knives and forks become weapons you're not sure if he does that as a warrior, that's just his thing.

Antoine Fuqua

#5. People in West Virginia do have cars. We have indoor plumbing. We even use knives and forks.

John Kruk

#6. Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.

Bertolt Brecht

#7. Chopsticks or no chopsticks, it was the Chinese who first used knives and forks.

L. M. Boyd

#8. So many knives and forks and spoons were not meant for a human being but for a centipede ...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#9. They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

Jonathan Swift

#10. Blunt the knives.
Bend the forks.
Smash the bottles and burn the corks.
Chip the glasses and crack the plates.
That's what Bilbo Baggins hates!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#11. Shoo the sparrow away and get on with supper. This is the first part of my new life strategy.

Miriam Toews

#12. You bought me some forks. And knives. And spoons. Because you love me!

Sarah Dessen

#13. I may be small, but I've got friends that make me ten feet tall.

Mickey Mouse

#14. All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God.

Hannah More

#15. They all believed that ideas are not "out there" waiting to be discovered, but are tools - like forks and knives and microchips - that people devise to cope with the world in which they find themselves.

Louis Menand

#16. This table is a pigeon trap. A dozen different forks and knives and spoons. Four different goblets. All of them just waiting to be knocked over or misapplied and mishandled. It's a wonder anyone is ever tempted to eat.

Siri Mitchell

#17. For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli.

John Conyers

#18. A lot of people don't have much food on their table. But they got a lot of forks 'n knives. And they got to cut somethin'.

Bob Dylan

#19. At mealtime a very broad cloth is laid on the trestle table in the solar. to facilitate service, places are set along one side only. On that side the cloth falls to the floor, doubling as a communal napkin...there are several kinds of knives...but no forks.

Joseph Gies

#20. McDonald's revolutionized fast food. They introduced a way to eat food without knives, forks or plates. Most fast foods can be eaten while steering the wheel of a car and the restaurants are usually drive through.

Eric Schlosser

#21. He makes a gesture, designed to impersonate frankness.

Hilary Mantel

#22. It is not that Christ is superior to Allah, not that Allah is everything and Brahma is nothing, but it is the same one whom you call either Brahma or Allah, or Almighty, or by a hundred other names. The names are different but God is one and the same.

Swami Vivekananda