Quotes About Tableware

I love a good set of basic white dishes.

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

My mother had a thing for blue in tableware; she said it warded off any evil eyes intent on ruining the food.

He hated the blue platter his mother served from, and the salt and pepper shakers, which were glass with red tops, and he hated the silverware designed in flowers, some pieces scratched almost beyond recognition. He even hated the round table and the succession of tablecloths, one pale blue with yellow leaves, one white with red and orange squares. He hated the uncomfortable chairs, particularly his own, where he sat squirming, and he hated his family and the way they talked.

Dessert spoons are large, oval-shaped spoons. They are so large that you could go for a swim in them.

If you ask someone if they like music, they look at you strangely. It seems to be a universal given. Like asking someone if they like breathing. It is like breathing. Or air, rather. Flowing without and within. A matrix within which our lives are set. The setting for the tableware of our beings.

I'm not too fond of really cool design. I've got quite kitsch taste really, in things like tableware. I'm quite a sucker for 1930s pressed glass.

everyone had access to good-quality plates, bowls and jugs,