Quotes about currant

A collection of quotes on the topic of currant.

    Quotes about currant

    Theodore Roosevelt photo

    “You could no more make an agreement with them than you could nail currant jelly to a wall - and the failure to nail current jelly to a wall is not due to the nail; it is due to the currant jelly.”

    Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States

    Letter to William Roscoe Thayer (2 July 1915)
    1910s

    Failure
    Nancy Mitford photo

    “Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.”

    Nancy Mitford book The Pursuit of Love

    Source: The Pursuit of Love

    Life, Sadness
    Naum Gabo photo

    “He (Piet Mondrian) couldn't look after himself properly. He was terrible [sic] thin, and seemed to live mostly on currants and vegetable stew, because he followed the Haye diet.”

    Naum Gabo (1890–1977) Russian sculptor

    Quote of Naum Gabo (1962), as cited in: Carel Blotkamp, Piet Mondrian (1994) Mondriaan: destructie als kunst
    1936 - 1977

    Elizabeth Bibesco photo

    “She is pasty and podgy, with the eyes of a currant bun, suddenly protruding with animation.”

    Elizabeth Bibesco (1897–1945) writer, actress; Romanian princess

    Virginia Woolf

    Animals