Top 50 Onion Quotes

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Onions are tasty, but can also make your breath stink. With that in mind, check out the top 50 onion quotes.

#50 – 40. Onion Quotes

50. It doesn’t matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy. – Padma Lakshmi

49. I will not move my army without onions. – Ulysses S. Grant

48. For an Apple is in it self a little Universe; the Seed, hotter than the other parts thereof, is its Sun, which diffuses about it self that natural Heat which preserves its Globe: And in the Onion, the Germ is the little Sun of that little World, which vivifies and nourishes the vegetative Salt of that little mass. – Cyrano de Bergerac

47. There is a charm in making a stew, to the unaccustomed cook, from the excitement of wondering what the result will be, and whether any flavour save that of onions will survive the competition in the mixture. – Annie Besant

46. I’m Irish, so I’m used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I’ll call it dinner. – Liam Neeson

45. Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best. – Bernard DeVoto

44. Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon. – William Shakespeare

43. Bert’s wallet is like an onion. Any time he opens it, he starts crying. – Brendan Morrison

42. Self-pity can make one weep, as can onions. – Jerry Fodor

41. Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable. Chefs cut up the onions and have the ingredients lined up ahead of time and have them ready to go. When everything is organized you can clean as you go and it makes everything so much easier and fun. – Anne Burrell

40. My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love. – Tracy Letts

#39 – 30. Onion Quotes

39. It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there’d be celestial-mechanics jokes. – Billy West

38. I think sometimes that people are like onions. On the outside smooth and whole and simple but inside ring upon ring, complex and deep. – Karen Cushman

37. Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it. – James Huneker

36. We have garlic days, and onion days. You know what they’re cooking. – Leslie White

35. It’s probably illegal to make soups, stews and casseroles without plenty of onions.- Maggie Waldron

34. The papers are portraying Rafa as a parrot, just like they did when they showed Graham Taylor as an onion – Bobby Gould

33. Banish (the onion) from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Its presence lends color and enchantment to the most modest dish; its absence reduces the rarest delicacy to hopeless insipidity, and dinner to despair. – Elizabeth Robins Pennell

32. When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice. – Joseph Wambaugh

31. Onions and bacon cooking up just makes your kitchen smell so good. In fact, one day I’m going to come up with a room deodorizer that smells like bacon and onions. It’s a fabulous smell. – Paula Deen

30. The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself. – George Ellwanger

#29 – 20. Onion Quotes

29. The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won’t be able to tell the carrots from the onions. – Arthur Bloch

28. In onion is strength; and a garden without it lacks flavour. The onion, in its satin wrappings, is among the most beautiful of vegetables; and it is the only one that represents the essence of things. It can almost be said to have a soul. – Charles Dudley Warner

27. Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep. – Benjamin Franklin

26. The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw. – Adam Johnson

25. It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while. – Arthur Golden

24. It’s toughest to forgive ourselves. So it’s probably best to start with other people. It’s almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself. – Patty Duke

23. Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another. – Juliette Binoche

22. Truth has as pity can make one weep, as can hollow when you peel it off. – Helen Waddell

21. When I say that life is like an onion, I mean this: if you don’t do anything with it, it goes rotten. So far, that’s no different from other vegetables. But when an onion goes bad, it can either do it from the inside, or the outside. So sometimes you see one that looks good, but the core is rotten. Other times, you can see a bad spot on it, but if you cut that out, the rest is fine. Tastes sharp, but that’s what you paid for, isn’t it? – Steven Brust

20. That would be cool if you could eat a good food with a bad food and the good food would cover for the bad food when it got to your stomach. Like you could eat a carrot with an onion ring and they would travel down to your stomach, then they would get there, and the carrot would say, It’s cool, he’s with me. – Mitch Hedberg

#19 – 10. Onion Quotes

19. The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn’t be a cop anymore. – Joseph Wambaugh

18. Banish the onion from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. – Elizabeth Robins Pennell

17. Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. – Carl Sandburg

16. I’m a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls! – Fanny Brice

15. These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly. – Mark Lawrenson

14. Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread, sweet onion, sour cream, it contains all five of the elements deemed essential by the sages of the Orient: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, and bitter. – Rex Stout

13. If you are a programmer working in 2006 and you don’t know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I’m going to punish you by making you peel onions for six months in a submarine. – Joel Spolsky

12. You cannot escape where you come from, September. Some part of it remains inside you always, like the slender white heart in the center of the thickest onion. – Catherynne M. Valente

11. Man is like an onion. His potential is exposed one layer at a time until all he is, is known by all. – Myles Munroe

10. Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry. – Derrick Jensen

#9 – 1. Onion Quotes

9. The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer. – Joseph Wambaugh

8. Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time. – Erma Bombeck

7. This was too much. “I refuse. I absolutely REFUSE to be an onion. – Louise Fitzhugh

6. I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man?s table, where one is fain to sit mincing and chewing his meat an hour together, drink little, be always wiping his fingers and his chops, and never dare to cough nor sneeze, though he has never so much a mind to it, nor do a many things which a body may do freely by one’s self. – Miguel de Cervantes

5. An onion can make people cry but there’s never been a vegetable that can make people laugh. – Will Rogers

4. Onion sauce! Onion Sauce! – Kenneth Grahame

3. It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions. – Julia Child

2. I love those tiny little onions in the spring that are so small they’re almost like a little chive. – Alice Waters

1. Life is like an onion; you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it. – James Gibbons Huneker

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