AtomicQuote

Jeffrey Eugenides Quote

In those days you could identify a person's nationality by smell. Lying on her back with eyes closed, Desdemona could detect the telltale oniony aroma of a Hungarian woman on her right, and the raw-meat smell of an Armenian on her left. (And they, in turn, could peg Desdemona as a Hellene by her aroma of garlic and yogurt.)

Jeffrey Eugenides

In those days you could identify a person's nationality by smell. Lying on her back with eyes closed, Desdemona could detect the telltale oniony aroma of a Hungarian woman on her right, and the raw-meat smell of an Armenian on her left. (And they, in turn, could peg Desdemona as a Hellene by her aroma of garlic and yogurt.)

Tags: nationality, smell

Related Quotes

I am usually able to tolerate all kinds of victims of indoctrination except those who have been infected with xenophobia, racism, or homophobia.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I am usually able to tolerate all kinds of victims of indoctrination except those who have been infected with xenophobia, racism, or homophobia.

Tags: apartheid, bias, bigot, bigotry, bigots, church, churches, countries, country, gay

If my mother's intention in whole or in part was to ensure that I never had to suffer any indignity or embarrassment for being a Jew, then she succeeded well enough. And in any case there were enough...

Christopher Hitchens

If my mother's intention in whole or in part was to ensure that I never had to suffer any indignity or embarrassment for being a Jew, then she succeeded well enough. And in any case there were enough...

Tags: intermarriage, jews, mothers, nationality, race, religion, religious conversions, rhetorical questions

But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either , which is infamous, or , which is imbecile.

Patrick O'Brian

But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either , which is infamous, or , which is imbecile.

Tags: maturin, nationalism, nationality, patriotism, stephen maturin

Any idea of a United India could never have worked and in my judgment it would have led us to terrific disaster.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Any idea of a United India could never have worked and in my judgment it would have led us to terrific disaster.

Tags: india, jinnah, nationality, pakistan, partion, united

I was having dinner…in London…when eventually he got, as the Europeans always do, to the part about Your country’s never been invaded. And so I said, Let me tell you who those bad guys are. They’re us...

P.J. O'Rourke

I was having dinner…in London…when eventually he got, as the Europeans always do, to the part about Your country’s never been invaded. And so I said, Let me tell you who those bad guys are. They’re us...

Tags: americans, culture, europe, europeans, nationality, politics

If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German,...

Albert Einstein

If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German,...

Tags: fame, infamy, nationality

To become truly human,one has to try an release oneself from the shackles of race,religion and nationality.The quantum of humanism one acquires is inevitably filtered when one limits oneself."-Ashoka...

Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad

To become truly human,one has to try an release oneself from the shackles of race,religion and nationality.The quantum of humanism one acquires is inevitably filtered when one limits oneself."-Ashoka...

Tags: humanity, nationality, race, religion

As every languageless, stateless, selfless nation has one last, twisted image of its worst and best, we have the ceilidh. Here we pretend we are Highland, pretend we have mysteries in our work, preten...

A.L. Kennedy

As every languageless, stateless, selfless nation has one last, twisted image of its worst and best, we have the ceilidh. Here we pretend we are Highland, pretend we have mysteries in our work, preten...

Tags: identity, nationality, scottish

Eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, and nationality. We are all equals with a common pulse to survive. Every human requires food and water. Every human has a dream and de...

Suzy Kassem

Eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, and nationality. We are all equals with a common pulse to survive. Every human requires food and water. Every human has a dream and de...

Tags: class, concept, division, dream, food, human, humanism, humanity, humans, income

Still, not to be English is hardly regarded as a fatal deficiency even by the English, though grave enough to warrant sympathy.

Beryl Markham

Still, not to be English is hardly regarded as a fatal deficiency even by the English, though grave enough to warrant sympathy.

Tags: english, nationality, pride
About Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960) is an American author. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993), Middlesex (2002), and The Marriage Plot (2011). The Virgin Suicides served as the basis of the 1999 film of the same name, while Middlesex received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in addition to being a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International Dublin Literary Award, and France's Prix Médicis.