flavour quotes

Variety's the spice of life, That gives it all its flavour.

-William Cowper
  The Task, bk.2,'The Timepiece', l.606^7.

In Americawe eat, collectively, withaglumurgefor food to fill us.We are ignorant of flavor. We are as a nation taste-blind.

- M(ary) F(rances) K(ennedy) Fisher
  The Art of Eating.

There are passages of Ulysses which can be read only in the toiletif one wants to extract the full flavour of their content.

- Henry Valentine Miller
  Black Spring,'A Saturday Afternoon'.

As full of flavor as hickory smoke.

- Lewis Mumford
  Of geotechnic expert Benton MacKaye. In Harvard University Magazine,  Jul.

He could smell her crackling white apron and the faint flavourof toastthat alwayshung about her so deliciously.

- P(amela) L(yndon) Travers
  Michael's impressions of Mary Poppins. Mary Poppins, ch.6.

Hissensuality has all drifted intosexual vanity, delight for being the candletothemoths, with a dash of intellectual curiosity to give flavour to his tickled vanity† His incompleteness as a thinker, his shallow and vulgar view of many human relationshipsthe lack of a sterner kind of humour which would show him the dreariness of his farce and the total absence of proportion and inadequateness in some of his ideasall these defects came largely from the flippant and worthless self- complacency brought about by the worship of rather second-rate women.

- (Martha) Beatrice ne  e Potter Webb
  Of George Bernard Shaw. Diary entry, 8 May.