Austria Quotes

If I were obliged to marry all those with whom I have jested, I should have at least two hundred wives.
Just as people behave to me, so do I behave to them. When I see that a person despises me and treats me with contempt, I can be as proud as any peacock.
My Constanze is the virtuous, honourable, discreet, and faithful darling of her honest and kindly-disposed Mozart.
My father is maestro at the Metropolitan church, which gives me an opportunity to write for the church as much as I please.
My sole recreations consist in dancing English hornpipes and cutting capers. Italy is a land of sleep; I am always drowsy here.
The happy medium - truth in all things - is no longer either known or valued; to gain applause, one must write things so inane that they might be played on barrel-organs, or so unintelligible that no rational being can comprehend them, though on that very account, they are likely to please.
Versification is, indeed, indispensable for music, but rhyme, solely for rhyming's sake, most pernicious.
We live in this world in order always to learn industriously and to enlighten each other by means of discussion and to strive vigorously to promote the progress of science and the fine arts.
When I come to reflect on the subject, in no country have I received such honors or been so esteemed as in Italy, and nothing contributes more to a man's fame than to have written Italian operas, and especially for Naples.
A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.
A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is sometimes difficult.
A lot of chefs are traditional and do it very well. But the ones who are the most successful are the ones who change things. That is why someone like Heston Blumenthal is a genius.
A lot of restaurants serve good food, but they don't have very good service.
Acting is a very artistic profession and there are thousands of people out there who think they are actors but there are very few who have real talent.
Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart.
Everybody has to put purees underneath everything now. It's like people think we need the steak, and then we need some baby food with it.
For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.
For me, I don't expect to have a really amazing meal each time I dine out. Having a good meal with your loved ones - that's what makes the experience.
I always tell people that they are really the critics. If people come three times a week to your restaurant they are the ones who find something they really love.
I believe that London is the most exciting food city in Europe.
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A. P. Herbert
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24 September, 1890
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11 November, 1971
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