Quote by Oscar Wilde
To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist -- the probl

To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist — the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with ones vinegar. – Oscar Wilde

Other quotes by Oscar Wilde

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. – Oscar Wilde

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Society
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. – Oscar Wilde

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Men
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Other Quotes from
Cooking, Culinary
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Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers. – William Shakespeare

I dont even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. – Katherine Cebrian

Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect! – Thomas Carlyle

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You cant expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them. – Theodore Bikel

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Travel

Obedience is the fruit of faith. – Christina Rossetti

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Faith

Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James Baldwin

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Listening

The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd. – Noam Chomsky

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Public