"Unflattering" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... trail toward economy in conducting the cuisine of a household lies through the delicatessen store or the "fancy" grocery. It is an unflattering comment on the spirit of thrift of American housewives that the delicatessen store has settled down to such a flourishing existence, particularly in Eastern cities. Any woman who possesses a stove and a kitchen of her ...
— Twenty-four Little French Dinners and How to Cook and Serve Them • Cora Moore
... another sort, no less bitter, and though exaggerated, somewhat better founded, assailed her after the appearance in 1847 of Lucrezia Floriani, a novel of character-analysis entirely, but into which she was accused of having introduced an unflattering portrait of Frederic Chopin, whose long and long-requited attachment to her entitled him to ...
— Famous Women: George Sand • Bertha Thomas |
