Quotes of Flavor - somelinesforyou

“ Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. ”

- Truman Capote

“ No pleasure has any savor for me without communication. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ You've never lived until you've almost died, for those who fought for it, life has a flavor the protected will never know. ”

- Anon.

“ Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience. ”

- John Stuart Mill

“ The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering. ”

- Dorothee Soelle

“ What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering. ”

- Harold Bloom

“ It isn't the flavor of coconut that troubles me, but the texture I feel as if I'm chewing on a sweetened cuticle. ”

- Steve Almond

“ Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor. ”

- William Cowper

“ Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through. ”

- George Eliot

“ Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor. ”

- Helen Rowland

“ Happiness, happiness… the flavor is with you — with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please. ”

- Joseph Conrad

“ Fat gives things flavor. ”

- Julia Child

“ All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet — if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content. ”

- Henry Miller

“ A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval. ”

- Helen Rowland

“ Variety is the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor. ”

- William Cowper

“ For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know. ”

- Unknown

“ For flavor, instant sex will never supercede the stuff you have to peel and cook. ”

- Quentin Crisp

“ Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks. ”

- Lazarus Long

“ The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage, he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection. ”

- Elizabeth Drew

“ What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time. ”

- John Gunther
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