Top 186 Onion Quotes & Sayings

New rule: Tulips aren't flowers. They're some kind of gay onion.

Banish the onion from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it.

The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

The onion is the truffle of the poor.

If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. (Melisandre of Asshai)

All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself.

Don't bother to argue anything on the Internet. And I mean, ANYTHING.... The most innocuous, innocent, harmless, basic topics will be misconstrued by people trying to deconstruct things down to the sub-atomic level and entirely miss the point.... Seriously. Keep peeling the onion and you get no onion.

The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.

When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.

Bert's wallet is like an onion. Any time he opens it, he starts crying.

A basic all-purpose rub: mix together one or two tablespoons equal parts black pepper, granulated garlic, grilled onion, and onion powder. That will give you real good base for any kind of meat. Just increase the amount if you're grilling large quantities.

He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers.

[on the BMW X3] If you are clinically insane, by which I mean you wake up in the morning and think you are an onion, here's your car.

The papers are portraying Rafa as a parrot, just like they did when they showed Graham Taylor as an onion

Let's say I've directed that [writing] energy into writing my latest book but suddenly, I really want to write about an onion. I don't say to myself, "No, you have stay on the subject," because I know that the longer I stay on the subject the more boring I get. So, if my mind wants to write about an onion, it might be a deeper way to go into what I'm working on, even though it might seem irrelevant. This is how I've learned to follow my mind.

Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.

Man is like an onion. His potential is exposed one layer at a time until all he is, is known by all.

If you can't think like an onion or a carrot or a tomato, you may be a technician, but you won't understand what you're doing, and your dish will be flat.

life becomes satire in real time, what good is the premiere satire magazine? It might as well just be the newspaper. You could pick up The Wall Street Journal and be like, "Oh, what a funny Onion headline!" And then the editor of The Onion is like, "Huh. I guess you won't be needing me anymore."

Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet.

Indeed, you become what you eat. In which case I am an onion. Layered, slightly sour and guaranteed to bring tears to the eyes.

I read The Onion, and I've read a lot of interviews that are very direct, often with people who are never direct. Which is interesting. But somehow the A.V.Club part of The Onion, I don't think is telegraphed into the popular culture.

In onion is strength; and a garden without it lacks flavour. The onion, in its satin wrappings, is among the most beautiful of vegetables; and it is the only one that represents the essence of things. It can almost be said to have a soul.

I admit it, I do like pickled red onion. I made some the other day. You just slice up the onion, pull it apart and you get these petals and you make a pickling liquid, I make mine sweet and sour.

A good hamburger mix: add equal parts black pepper, granulated garlic, grilled onion, onion powder and some chopped onion. And mix in a little barbecue sauce, which will add even more great flavor.

Fully stripped down, an onion is a pile of scattered layers; it has no center.

pulled into my convenient neighborhood fast food restaurant. I ordered shrimp salad, onion rings, and a beer. The shrimp were straight out of the freezer, the onion rings soggy. Looking around the place, though, I failed to spot a single customer banging on a tray or complaining to a waitress. So I shut up and finished my food. Expect nothing, get nothing.

When I say that life is like an onion, I mean this: if you don't do anything with it, it goes rotten. So far, that's no different from other vegetables. But when an onion goes bad, it can either do it from the inside, or the outside. So sometimes you see one that looks good, but the core is rotten. Other times, you can see a bad spot on it, but if you cut that out, the rest is fine. Tastes sharp, but that's what you paid for, isn't it?

I am the Internet guy. But the reason the 'Onion News Empire' was such an easy decision to make is I so trust that side of the fence now.

Onion sauce! Onion Sauce!

I'm a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls!

His breath is so bad why every time he smokes he blows onion rings.

Before Julia Child there was only onion dip.

I love The Onion videos, those are amazing.

I can remember tasting cheese and onion crisps when they first came on the market - they were the most amazing thing ever.

I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.

It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.

If the boy have not a woman's gift To rain a shower of commanded tears, An onion will do well for such a shift.

Truth has as many coats as an onion ... and each one of them hollow when you peel it off.

I understand the big food companies are developing a tearless onion. I think they can do it - after all, they've already given us tasteless bread.

The real secret to guacamole is that you use exactly the elements that you need, which is cilantro, onion, tomato, and jalapenos. And, of course, avocado.

Vimes stalked gloomily through the crowded streets, feeling like the only pickled onion in a fruit salad.

She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up. The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, "Let go-it's my onion," and as soon as she said, "my onion," the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.

Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight.

Basically, Walkers are putting real produce into their flavours, so the cheese and onion flavour is actually cheese and onion rather than just flavourings.

I started reading 'The Onion' when I was 13 years old.

It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.

Not many people know this but we come from a long line of chicken, pineapple and onion farmers at Ingham in Queensland.

I said this man [Donald Trump] is peeling back the onion of White civility; and every level of that onion that he peels back, more and more of the nakedness of rancor and hate and bitterness is coming up out of the followers. This is one of the most interesting of all of the political presidential runs that I have had the blessing of seeing in my 83 years on this planet.

My own remedy is always to eat, just before I step into bed, a hot roasted onion, if I have a cold.

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Yeah, I started with 'The Onion,' that was my first job out of college.

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.

The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself.

The black asphalt wouls shimmer with vapors I had a theory about those vapors...not released by the sun but by a huge onion buried under the city. This onion made us cry... I thought about the giant onion, that remarkable bulb of sadness.

When I was growing up in Chicago, my family and I used to go to a local chain, Hackney's, for burgers and their French fried onion loaf. I probably haven't been to one in 25 years, and yet, I once saw Donald Trump from behind in an office building and the first thing that flashed in my mind was his hair looked like that onion loaf.

I've learned that ayahuasca works in levels, a little like peeling an onion. It is complex and something you really have to experience to understand.

Take care to chop the onion fine.

The smell of onion is the most effective thing for relieving stinging eyes irritated by tear gas.