Quotes of Kettle - somelinesforyou

“ Language is like a crack'd kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity. ”

- Gustave Flaubert

“ The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars. ”

- Gustave Flaubert

“ Perhaps you will regard it as a pardonable vanity which induces me here to mention that I have handed the kettle to Joanna Baillie to replenish her teapot in her home at Hampstead. ”

- Henry Glassford Bell

“ Well, Mr. Baldwin! This is a pretty kettle of fish! ”

- King Edward VIII

“ Now that's a case of the pot calling the kettle metal. ”

- Jeff Jarvis

“ I can boil a kettle for a pot noodle and have been known to warm up some food in the microwave but cookery is definitely not one of my specialties. ”

- Michael J. Owen

“ Little pot, do not call the kettle black until you have been in the fire as long as he has! ”

- Sequichie grandmother

“ He used to raise a storm in a teapot. ”

- Cicero

“ Now, there is no harm in a teapot, even if it contains tea, if it is let alone. ”

- Brigham Young

“ For none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. ”

- Gustave Flaubert
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