Famous quotes containing the words mustard, gas and/or burns:
“Johnsons conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young childs mouth.”
—Hester Lynch Thrale (17391821)
“... when I awake in the middle of the night, since I knew not where I was, I did not even know at first who I was; I only had in the first simplicity the feeling of existing as it must quiver in an animal.... I spent one second above the centuries of civilization, and the confused glimpse of the gas lamps, then of the shirts with turned-down collars, recomposed, little by little, the original lines of my self.”
—Marcel Proust (18711922)
“So cold, so icy that one burns ones fingers on him! Every hand that touches him pulls away in fright!And for that very reason, some take him to be glowing hot.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)