"Roquefort" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a friend of the house. He dispensed with ceremony, read my manuscript over his Roquefort, and seemed to find it ...
— The Inheritors • Joseph Conrad
... other soap for Mrs. Rowe, if you please. People who wanted any of the fanciful soaps of Rimmel or Piver must buy them. Brown Windsor was all she kept. Yes, she was obliged to have Gruyere—and people did ask occasionally for Roquefort; but her opinion was that the person who did not prefer a good Cheshire to any other cheese, deserved to go without any. She had been twenty-one years in Paris, and seven times only had she missed morning service on Sundays. Hereupon, a ...
— The Cockaynes in Paris - 'Gone abroad' • Blanchard Jerrold
... laid the table for two, and put on it all the food she had. The cheese was Roquefort, and the ham had been covered with jelly. About ten persons with reasonable appetites should have been able to sup on what there was; but (how I know not) the whole disappeared, and also two bottles of Chambertin, which I seem to taste now. My sweetheart's eyes gleamed with pleasure: truly ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt |
