37 Quotes About Onions

If you hear ‘I will show you pepper’, you are very fortunate. If he shows you his pepper, show him your tomatoes; he shows you his ginger, you show him your onions. With these ingredients, you are on your way to becoming friends on spicy pot of stew.

True friends chop the onions and cry together.

Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.

If you cross an onion with a UFO, what you get is a flying saucer that brings tears to your eyes.

I'm as provocative of tears as an onion!

Onion skins- light, translucent, golden- swirl round the chopping board in the draft created by my knife. I think of Ali Slimane's sublime white onions, as sweet as fruit, like light bulbs because, rather than being reflected in them, the light seemed to emanate from them.

Shite and onions!

When pestered with questions, memory is like an onion that wishes to be peeled so we can read what is laid bare letter by letter.

At a great distance appeared with the same pomp the sheep of Thebes, the dog of Bubastis, the cat of Phoebe, the crocodile of Arsinoe, the goat of Mendes, and all the inferior gods of Egypt, who came to pay homage to the great ox, to the mighty Apis, as powerful as Isis, Osiris, and Horus, united together.In the midst of the demi-gods, forty priests carried an enormous basket, filled with sacred onions. These were, it is true, gods, but they resembled onions very much.("The White Bull")