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Isabella Beeton Quotes

There should be a place for everything, and everything in its place Picture Quote #1

Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely Picture Quote #1

Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc., being brought in as other guests arrive Picture Quote #1

Pay, pay anything rather than go to law Picture Quote #1

It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is a faithful husband... but no sooner is he domesticated than he becomes polygamous, and makes nothing of owning ten or a dozen wives at a time Picture Quote #1

Dining is the privilege of civilization... The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of progress Picture Quote #1

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A good kitchen should be sufficiently remote from the principal apartments of the house, that the members, visitors, or guests of the family, may not perceive the odour incident to cooking, or hear the noise of culinary operations Picture Quote #1

I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife’s badly cooked dinners and untidy ways Picture Quote #1

As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over the rude materialities of nature, so in the art of cookery is the progress gradual from the earliest and simplest modes, to those of the most complicated and refined Picture Quote #1

Fish is held out to be one of the greatest luxuries of the table and not only necessary, but even indispensable at all dinners where there is any pretence of excellence or fashion Picture Quote #1

Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly repressed... Economy and frugality must never, however, be allowed to degenerate into meanness Picture Quote #1

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There should be a place for everything, and everything in its place (Isabella Beeton Quotes) Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely (Isabella Beeton Quotes) Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc., being brought in as other guests arrive (Isabella Beeton Quotes) Pay, pay anything rather than go to law (Isabella Beeton Quotes) It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is a faithful husband... but no sooner is he domesticated than he becomes polygamous, and makes nothing of owning ten or a dozen wives at a time (Isabella Beeton Quotes) Dining is the privilege of civilization... The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of progress (Isabella Beeton Quotes) A good kitchen should be sufficiently remote from the principal apartments of the house, that the members, visitors, or guests of the family, may not perceive the odour incident to cooking, or hear the noise of culinary operations (Isabella Beeton Quotes) I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife’s badly cooked dinners and untidy ways (Isabella Beeton Quotes) As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over the rude materialities of nature, so in the art of cookery is the progress gradual from the earliest and simplest modes, to those of the most complicated and refined (Isabella Beeton Quotes) Fish is held out to be one of the greatest luxuries of the table and not only necessary, but even indispensable at all dinners where there is any pretence of excellence or fashion (Isabella Beeton Quotes) Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly repressed... Economy and frugality must never, however, be allowed to degenerate into meanness (Isabella Beeton Quotes)