Skip to content

There aren't many great passages written about food but I love one by George Millar, who worked for the SOE in the second world war and wrote a book called 'Horned Pigeon.' He had been on the run and hadn't eaten for a week, and his description of the cheese fondue he smells in the peasant kitchen of a house in eastern France is unbelievable.

— Sebastian Faulks

Another quote →

More quotes by Sebastian Faulks

He depended on the resilience of certain men to nerve himself to his unnatural life.

Birdsong (1993)

Jack already immune to death, let their white faces drift from his memory.

Birdsong (1993)

If they could shout loud enough they might bring the world back to it's senses, they might laugh loud enough to raise the dead.

Birdsong (1993)

Any man shirking his duty would be shot on the spot.

Birdsong (1993)

He blamed the NCOs, who blamed the officers; they swore at the staff officers who blamed the Generals.

Birdsong (1993)

All Sebastian Faulks quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Sebastian Faulks (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.