Toadstools Quotes

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

I've never trusted toadstools, but I suppose some must have their good points.

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

Perhaps in time, Ella, the words we have lost will fade, and we will all stop summoning them by habit, only to stamp them out like unwanted toadstools when they appear. Perhaps they will eventually disappear altogether, and the accompanying halts and stammers as well: those troublesome, maddening pauses that at present invade and punctuate through caesura all manner of discourse. Trying so desperately we all are, to be ever so careful.

It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so.