Bits & Bites - Famous Quotes
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- In 1546, author John Heywood wrote in "Proverbes" that "The moon is made of a greene cheese." But in 1546 greene meant new, unaged, not green in colour.
- In 1883, Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson in book "Treasure Island" when castaway Ben Gunn finally is found by young Jim Hawkins says, "You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted, mostly--and woke up again, and here I were."
- In early 1900's, American comic actor W. C. Fields said "The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath."
- In 1960's, Clifton Fadiman an American writer, editor and New Yorker book reviewer wrote "A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be over sophisticated. Yet it remains, cheese, milk's leap toward immortality."
- In 1962, French General & Politician Charles De Gaulle in "Les Mots du General" wrote "How can one be expected to govern a nation with 246 kinds of cheese?"
- In 1979, in British Monty Python movie Life of Brian, a scene spectator who mishears "Blessed are the peacemakers…" says "I think it was Blessed are the cheesemakers".
- In 1995, in Wallace & Gromit in A Close Shave movie: Wallace courting Wendolene says "Won't you come in? We were just about to have some cheese." Wendolene replies "Oh no, not cheese. Sorry. Brings me out in a rash. Can't stand the stuff." To which Wallace replies with a gulp "Not even Wensleydale?"
