- I'm frightened of
eggs, worse than frightened,
- they revolt me.
That white round thing without any holes ... have
- you ever seen
anything more revolting than an
- egg yolk breaking and
spilling as yellow liquid?
- Blood is jolly, red.
But egg yolk is yellow, revolting.
- I've never tasted it.
-
Alfred Hitchcock
-
- Render any politician
down, and
- there’s enough
fatto fry an egg.
-
Spike Milligan
-
- Put all your eggs in
one basket,
- and – watch the
basket.
-
Mark Twain
-
- An egg today is
better than a chicken tomorrow.
-
Poor Richard’s Almanac
-
- Can you unscramble
eggs?
-
J. P. Morgan
-
- As everybody knows,
there is only one infallible
- recipe for the perfect omelette: Your own.
-
Elizabeth David
-
- Love and eggs are
best when
- They are fresh.
-
Russian Proverb
-
- Eggs of an hour,
bread of a day, wine of a year,
- a friend of thirty
years.
-
Italian Proverb
-
- Omlettes are not made
- without breaking
eggs.
-
Robespierre
-
-
Ask
for heron’s eggs whipped
- with wine into an
amber foam.
-
Ronald Firbank,
when asked by a friend
- what to order in a
Lyons teashop; Mervyn Horder
- Ronald Firbank, Memoirs
and Critiques (1977)
-
- ... an egg which has
succeeded in being fresh has done
- all that can be
reasonably expected of it.
-
Henry James
-
- A hen is only an
egg’s way
- of making another
egg.
-
Samuel Butler
(1835-1902)
- Life and Habit, VIII
-
- It’s very easy to
talk,” said Mrs. Mantalini, “Not so easy
- when one is eating a
demnition egg,” replied Mr. Mantalini;
- “for the yolk runs
down the waistcoat, and yolk of
- egg does not match
any waistcoat but a yellow
- waistcoat, demmit.”
-
Charles Dickens
-
- Dear Lord, the day of
eggs is here.
-
Amanda M. Ros, Ode
to Easter
-
- I never see an egg brought on my table but I feel
- penetrated with the
wonderful change it would have undergone but for
- my gluttony; it might
have been a gentle useful hen, leading her
- chickens with a care
and vigilance which speaks shame to many women.
-
St. John de
Crevecoeur
-
- Be content to
remember that those
- who can make
omelettes properly
- can do nothing else.
-
Hilaire Belloc
-
- Yet, who can help
loving the land
- that has taught us
685 ways to dress eggs.
-
Thomas Moore
-
- An egg is funny, an
orange is not!
-
Fred Allen
-
- There are nine ways
of poaching eggs and each
- of them is worse than
the other.
-
Robert Lynd
-
- Sign on a hen house:
- An egg a day keeps
Colonel Sanders away.
-
Anonymous
-
- It is, I imagine,
rather disturbing to see me eat a hard-boiled egg – I get the egg
covered in lipstick and my lower lip tends to fold down and swab my chin
… I don’t even want to talk about what happens when I blow my nose.
-
Elizabeth McCracken
-
- He who treads on
eggs, must tread lightly.
-
German Proverb
-
- He that would have
eggs
- must endure the
cackling of hens.
-
Latin Proverb
-
- There is no such
thing
- as a pretty good
omelet.
-
French proverb
-
- A rotten egg cannot
be spoiled.
-
A Proverb
-
- Being kissed by a man
who didn't wax his moustache
- is like eating and
egg without salt.
-
Rudyard Kipling
