“You have not been sticking your dirty fingers in my sauce,’’ Eve said, and pointed her wooden spoon
at him.
He quickly took the finger out of his mouth. ‘‘First off, they’re not dirty. I licked them first.”
Source: Feast of Fools
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Rachel Caine288
American writer 1962Related quotes
“"I will just wag my finger at him", he said, putting it on the trigger.”
Stanisław Jerzy Lec book Unkempt Thoughts
Pogrożę mu tylko palcem – rzekł, kładąc go na cynglu.
Unkempt Thoughts (1957)
John Betjeman (1906–1984) English poet, writer and broadcaster
"On a Portrait of a Deaf Man" line 25, from Old Lights for New Chancels.
Poetry
“Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.”
William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet
Source: Romeo and Juliet
George S. Patton (1885–1945) United States Army general
Remark to his nephew about his copious profanity, quoted in The Unknown Patton (1983) by Charles M. Province, p. 184
Context: When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can't run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn't fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. … As for the types of comments I make, sometimes I just, By God, get carried away with my own eloquence.
