Caviar Quotes

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.

The South, to me, is fried chicken and catfish caviar --- that's grits --- and good-looking women.

When I go out, I love steak and caviar.

One can be unhappy before eating caviar, even after, but at least not during.

Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.

For me, true luxury can be caviar or a day with no meetings, no appointments and no schedule.

If you eat caviar every day it's difficult to return to sausages.

I like to work really hard and then earn the good life. I actually enjoy it. If you're eating caviar all the time, it doesn't taste good anymore.

I don't take notes; I don't outline, I don't do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. You can't sell it as caviar.

Those big-shot writers ... could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.

God didn't bless me with success so I could eat caviar every day.

I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.

Wit is like caviar - it should be served in small portions and not spread about like marmalade.

Fame to me certainly is only a temporary and a partial happiness ... fame is not really for a daily diet, that's not what fulfills you. It warms you a bit but the warming is temporary. It's like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have to have it every meal and every day.

Ah, Caviar! I keep on eating it, but can never get my fill. Like olives. It's a lucky thing it's not salty.

Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

Russians will consume marinated mushrooms and vodka, salted herring and vodka, smoked salmon and vodka, salami and vodka, caviar on brown bread and vodka, pickled cucumbers and vodka, cold tongue and vodka, red beet salad and vodka, scallions and vodka-anything and everything and vodka.

Give me Caviar Kaspia and give me a hamburger. I love the two extremes.

Mr. Rockefeller is due to entertain munificently at breakfast, and make his pitch. My advice to one invited guest was: Order caviar, and then say No.

In nineteenth-century Russia, sauerkraut was valued more than caviar.

Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar.

[on whether he harbored any resentment at his forced retirement from the stage after he was fired by Britain's National Theater] I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare... An actor must act.

Accents are funny in that they have this odd draw for us, yet we forget we have one, too. No one is without an accent, but the one you’ve got seems like oatmeal to their caviar.

All I know is that you can chop up all the onions and the whatevers you want and put it on top of caviar, but you still can't disguise the fact that you're eating fish eggs. Ugh!

I don't feel the need for unusual or glamorous foods like caviar, and I tend more towards ordinary, satisfying food.

All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.

Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because you had a show in the first place.

Have caviar if you like, but it tastes like herring to me.

Oh, princes thrive on caviar, the poor on whey and curds, / And politicians, I infer, must eat their windy words. / It's crusts that feed the virtuous, it's cake that comforts sinners, / But writers live on bread and praise at Literary Dinners.

Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.

I hate caviar. Ugh! The freebase of food!

The most fun I ever had on a movie was working with Albert Brooks. He's the caviar of comedy. I mean, nobody's funnier; nobody is smarter than Albert Brooks.

Grab some caviar from the kitchen. You wouldn't believe the muck they feed us in Bartleby's for ten thousand a term.

Poireaux vinaigrette aux grains de caviar.” I did a quick translation. “Leeks and fish eggs in vinegar?” He grinned. “It sounds better in French.” Yeah, but did it taste better?

My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.

I guess, as they say, I never acquired a taste for [caviar].

If you're poor, potato chips are the food of life for you. It's the caviar.