Oil/basis

Famous quotes containing the words oil and/or basis:

    “As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.”
    —George Orwell (1903–1950)

    “Even upon such a basis hast thou built
    A monument, whose cement hath been guilt!”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)