Distilled Mustard

Famous quotes containing the words distilled and/or mustard:

    “My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.”
    —John Cheever (1912–1982)

    “Johnson’s conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child’s mouth.”
    —Hester Lynch Thrale (1739–1821)