"As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over the rude materialities of nature, so in the art of cookery is the progress gradual from the earliest and simplest modes, to those of the most complicated and refined."

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Source : Isabella Beeton, Nicola Humble (2008). “Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: Abridged Edition”, p.57, Oxford University Press

Isabella Beeton

#Art Quotes #Rude Quotes #Cooking Quotes

“Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.”
“Instead of standing on the shore and proving to ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture on its waters just to see.”
“I think thereâ€™s something really sexy about being funny and being quirky and weird. I think weâ€™re in a generation where weâ€™re accepting weirdness and individuality, and I think thatâ€™s the most important part.”
“Any argument where one supposes an arbitrary choice to be made an uncountably infinite number of times ...[is] outside the domain of mathematics.”
“If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter.”

Source : "The Princess and the Press". "Frontline", www.pbs.org. November 16, 1997.
“I never, never supporting any violence and everybody that know me, and all the countries here they know well that is no one, nowhere that the former prime minister will become terrorist to hurt their own country. No way.”
“I am proud that I have devoted all my life to the struggle for the triumph of Leninism.”

Source : "Tim Buck: A Conscience for Canada". Book by Oscar Ryan, 1975.
“Nature's bank-dividends.”

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