Basil Quotes

Basil Quote of the day

A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.

And I did a movie called Basil with Jared Leto and Christian Slater.

Savory...that's a swell word. And Basil and Betel. Capsicum. Curry. All great. But Relish, now, Relish with a capital R. No argument, that' the best.

Bad Girl!" She chided. "I'm pretty sure Boris is a boy," I said. "Oh, I know," Mrs. Basil E. assured me. "I just like to keep him confused," Then she and Boris headed off with my future.

Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean, uptight, incompetent bully comes naturally to me.

What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset.

I would sit in at a jazz brunch [at sweet Basil] with Eddie Chamblee, who was a great tenor player. Really a kind man. The whole band was great.

I was also sitting in from the middle of senior year of high school at Sweet Basil, it was a great club in New York.

Even if you live in New York City, you can have a little basil plant in your window, and that could be considered urban farming.

I went in [Sweet Basil band] and played with them, maybe half the gig for almost eight years or more.

Ernie Hayes, Jimmy Lewis, and either Belton Evans or Khalil Mahdi on drums [were in Sweet Basil]. All those guys really took care of me.

On daughter Apple's accent: She says Mummy instead of Mommy, I don't mind that. I will if she starts saying basil and pasta the English way, as that really drives me nuts.

Illy [Ray Illingworth] had the man-management skills of Basil Fawlty

It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.

The mountain-path of Action is no longer a path for me