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Quotes About Soup

The sea was angry that day my friend, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.
~ Stevie Smith
Dinner would have been splendid...if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess.
~ Churchill, Winston
Now I continued sipping my soup. If my lack of emotion had not surprised me from the standpoint of professional interest, I would not remember this incident now, because there was so little feeling involved in it.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Well, Dr. Einstein, what's for supper tonight? Alphabet soup?
~ Vin Packer
Raising her eyebrows at the discrepancy – that was what she was thinking, this was what she was doing – ladling out soup – she felt, more and more strongly, outside that eddy; or as if a shade had fallen, and, robbed of colour, she saw things truly. The room (she looked round it) was very shabby. There was no beauty anywhere.
~ Virginia Woolf
The last hour waiting patiently on a tray for her somewhere in the future. The spoon slipping quietly into the beautiful soup.
~ Laura Kasischke
IDEALIST. One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
~ H. L. Mencken
A misty October morning with temperatures in the forties. Into the soup pot with the last of the summer garden's bounty.
~ @CoffeeZen, tweet, 2009
When society dropped its hammer on your head, well, there it is. Soup
~ James McBride
O akÅŸam ateÅŸ ba??nda oturdular ve oÄŸlan s?cak çorba içti ve adam sopalarda buharlar? tüten giysilerini çevirdi ve oÄŸlan mahcup olana kadar oturup onu izledi. Beni izlemekten vazgeç, baba, dedi. Tamam. Gene de izledi ama.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Perché la minestra si fredda," he writes. Because the soup is getting cold.24
~ Walter Isaacson
Her body was spattered with tiny bits of the reverend's flesh and blood, like someone had combined shrimp and tomato soup and then forgot to put the lid on the blender.
~ Chelsea Cain
My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.
~ Chiang Kai-shek
Worries go down better with soup.
~ Jewish proverb
Cold soup is a very tricky thing and it is the rare hostess who can carry it off. More often than not the dinner guest is left with the impression that had he only come a little earlier he could have gotten it while it was still hot.
~ Fran Lebowitz
Every cloud has a silver lining and every plate of vegetable soup is filled with vegetables.
~ W. C. Fields, 1934
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
~ H.L. Mencken
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.
~ H.L. Mencken
Possum soup, all nice and thick with peanuts
~ Harry Turtledove
Theodore took his seat between Nicholas and Lydia, while John, the footman, removed the dome lid of the tureen by its acorn finial, and ladled out the almond soup. Theodore's appetite was always formidable, and now he slurped a spoonful, savoring the creamy sweetness, noting that Mrs. Meadowes had expertly prevented the soup from curdling and had seasoned it to perfection with a melange of nutmeg, pepper, bay, and mace.
~ Janet Gleeson
People seldom think of soup for summer, so they are unusual - an interesting, unusual touch for the first course or for dessert. I find cold soups very refreshing. I serve them in cups rather than in bowls, usually, and let people sip them. You don't really need a spoon for soups that are all one consistency.
~ Ruth Glick
When you have a good stock, you can make a good soup.
~ Martin Yan
Miso makes a soup loaded with flavour that saves you the hassle of making stock.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
I make really good chicken soup, sort of from scratch. I don't make my own stock. I just use a base like a chicken stock, but everything else, all the ingredients, I do on my own.
~ Eric Dane