Partially Hardened Vegetable

Famous quotes containing the words partially, hardened and/or vegetable:

    “Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    “A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.”
    —Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

    “Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your
    languid spleen,
    An attachment a la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a
    not-too-French French bean!”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)