gravy quotes

Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium.

- Edmund Clerihew Bentley
  Biography for Beginners,'Sir Humphrey Davy'.

Heap high the groaning platter with pink fillets, sucking pig and thick gammon, celestial chef. Be generous with the crackling. Let your hand slip with the gravy trough, dispensing plenty.

- George Mann MacBeth
  'An Ode to English Food'.

God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No bellyand no bowels, Only consonants and vowels.

-John Crowe Ransom
  Poems and Essays,'Survey of Literature'.