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Delectable Quotes

A word that lingers on the tongue.

These quotes use "delectable" well beyond the dinner table, applying it to music, painting, and even a strange comfort found in watching someone else struggle. Pair it with Experience quotes for more sensory reflections.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Food
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Nov 07, 2020

I believe in a tongue-first exploration of the world. Food is our most immediate daily relationship to our ecosystem, and there is something delectable and intriguing about it.

Quotes by Natalie Jeremijenko

Painting
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Nov 07, 2020

Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.

Quotes by Maurice Blanchot

Nov 07, 2020

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.

Quotes by Marquis de Sade

Man
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Nov 07, 2020

Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.

Quotes by Lucretius

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts. Fancy ingredients or recipes not required; simple, made-up things are usually even better.

Quotes by Erin Morgenstern

Experience
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Nov 07, 2020

You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts.

Quotes by Erin Morgenstern

Flowers
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Nov 07, 2020

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.

Quotes by Beverley Nichols

One line ties food directly to our relationship with the wider ecosystem, while another calls a shared taste in art or music an isolating, prideful pleasure. See Chef and Daily quotes for related themes.

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