Palate quotes

Palate

14 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

14 quotes
Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust Novelist

"No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me."

Rebecca West
Rebecca West Novelist, Journalist

"a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who eats it live for ever though a bad one can make him dead for ever."

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