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

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There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor. – Oscar Wilde

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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

There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves. – Thomas Wolfe

Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers. – William Shakespeare

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