60 Quotes About Potatoes

  • Author Gilbert K. Chesterton
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    For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be used but made to be sold. All the collapse of their commercial system in their own time has been due to that fallacy of forcing things on a market where there was no market; of continually increasing the power of supply without increasing the power of demand; of briefly, of always considering the man who sells the potato and never considering the man who eats it.

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  • Author Ilka Chase
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    I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem.

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  • Author Charles Dickens
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    You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!

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  • Author Craig ferguson
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    I grew up in Scotland in the 1970s. There was not much money. The most popular Christmas toy was probably a potato.

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  • Author Jim Fowler
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    Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

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  • Author Paloma Faith
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    I'm really into food; it's one of my favourite things - everything from potato waffles to lobster.

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