Jane Grigson quotes

“In my experience, clever food is not appreciated at Christmas. It makes the little ones cry and the old ones nervous.”
-- Jane Grigson

#Appreciation Quotes #Clever Quotes #Littles Quotes

“This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal.... We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight that a cabbage patch or even an elegant vegetable garden cannot provoke.”
-- Jane Grigson

Source : Jane Grigson (2007). “Jane Grigson's Fruit Book”, p.27, U of Nebraska Press

#Garden Quotes #Vegetables Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Shape is a good part of the fig's delight.”
-- Jane Grigson

Source : Jane Grigson (2007). “Jane Grigson's Fruit Book”, p.160, U of Nebraska Press

#Delight Quotes #Shapes Quotes #Figs Quotes

“Cabbage as a food has problems. It is easy to grow, a useful source of greenery for much of the year. Yet as a vegetable it has original sin, and needs improvement. It can smell foul in the pot, linger through the house with pertinacity, and ruin a meal with its wet flab. Cabbage also has a nasty history of being good for you.”
-- Jane Grigson

Source : Jane Grigson (2007). “Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book”, p.125, U of Nebraska Press

#Vegetables Quotes #Years Quotes #Smell Quotes

“The artichoke above all is the vegetable expression of civilised living, of the long view, of increasing delight by anticipation and crescendo. No wonder it was once regarded as an aphrodisiac. It had no place in the troll's world of instant gratification. It makes no appeal to the meat-and-two-veg mentality.”
-- Jane Grigson

Source : Jane Grigson (2007). “Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book”, p.15, U of Nebraska Press

#Expression Quotes #Vegetables Quotes #Two Quotes

“A number of rare or newly experienced foods have been claimed to be aphrodisiacs. At one time this quality was even ascribed to the tomato. Reflect on that when you are next preparing the family salad.”
-- Jane Grigson

#Numbers Quotes #Quality Quotes #Tomatoes Quotes

“The apple was the first fruit of the world according to Genesis, but it was no Cox's Orange Pippin. God gave the crab apple and left the rest to man.”
-- Jane Grigson

Source : Jane Grigson (2007). “Jane Grigson's Fruit Book”, p.1, U of Nebraska Press

#Men Quotes #Apples Quotes #Orange Quotes

“An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky.”

“Basically, as a kid I grew up to a lot of good music, and part of my appreciation for music, from being a small child, was appreciating Jamaican music.”

Source : "No Doubt's Adrian Young gets irie with a reggae mix". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. October 2, 2012.

“The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.”

“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”

“The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.”

“All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.”

Source : "The Educated Citizen". Address at Princeton University, March 22, 1954.

“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”

“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.”

“You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.”

“I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.”