Home / Quotes / Quote by Isabella Beeton

Quote by Isabella Beeton

“The half-hour before dinner has always been considered as the great ordeal through which the mistress, in giving a dinner-party, will either pass with flying colours, or lose many of her laurels.”

Quote by Isabella Beeton

Book:Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: Abridged Edition

Work

Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: Abridged Edition

Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management is a seminal work in the field of domestic science, providing detailed instructions on household management, cooking, and etiquette. The book covers a wide range of topics, including recipes, cleaning, gardening, and child care. This abridged edition retains the core content of the original, making it more accessible for modern readers. more

Author

Isabella Beeton

Isabella Beeton, born on March 12, 1836, and died on February 6, 1865, was an English author renowned for her cookbooks. Her work 'Beeton's Book of Household Management' had a profound impact on British domestic cooking in the 19th century. more

You May Also Like

“Do not put chewed bones back on plates. Instead, throw them on the floor for the dog.”

Culture Dog Bones Plates

Author:Desiderius Erasmus

“The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.”

Knows Should Use Culture Know How British Foolish Cooks Salt Pillars Iniquity

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour that man and womankind has devoted to the preparation of dishes that are to melt and vanish in a moment like smoke or a dream, like a shadow, and as a post that hastes by, and the air closes behind them, afterwards no sign where they went is to be found.”

Thinking Men Moments Dream Culture Found Behinds Growing Air Bears Prove Men And Women Shadow Cooking Burden Smoke Preparation Posts Labour Devoted Dishes Haste

Book:Personal Pleasures

Source: Personal Pleasures

“Food for all is a necessity. Food should not be a merchandise, to be bought and sold as jewels are bought and sold by those who have the money to buy. Food is a human necessity, like water and air, it should be available.”

Should Humans Culture Water Air Available Jewels Merchandise

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.”

Humans War Culture Peace Human Beings Learning Violence Anti War Inherent

Author:Elise M. Boulding

“Peace cultures thrive on and are nourished by visions of how things might be, in a world where sharing and caring are part of the accepted lifeways for everyone.”

World Might Culture Vision Acceptance Caring Accepted Thrive Sharing And Caring

Author:Elise M. Boulding

“I believe that a culture of peace must be the essential foundation of our efforts for peace.”

Believe Culture I Believe Effort Essentials Foundation

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“We have really got to create a culture in our world today where we recognize that every human life is sacred and precious and we have no right to take another human life.”

World Humans Today Life Is Culture Sacred Human Life Our World World Today

Author:Mairead Corrigan

“Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace but also the art of attaining it? I mean attaining and protecting it by means other than weapons, the tools of war. Why are we surprised whenever war recedes and yields to peace?”

Mean Art War Culture Nations Virtue Military Weapons Tools Yield Academy Prestigious

Author:Elie Wiesel

“In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man.”

Men Culture Understanding Term Fast Food Deep Understanding

Author:Bill Gates