These sauce quotes will inspire you. Sauce, a condiment or relish for food especially or thick liquid served with food, usually savory dishes, to add moistness and flavor.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging sauce quotes, sauce sayings, and sauce proverbs.
Best Sauce Quotes
- “It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.” ~ Alistair Cooke
- “Rumors are the sauce of a dry life.” ~ Orson Scott Card
- “An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.” ~ Anthony Bourdain
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“Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar – the foundation of all languages.” ~ Alexis Soyer
- “A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.” ~ Anton Chekhov
- “In the orchestra of a great kitchen, the sauce chef is a soloist.” ~ Fernand Point
- “If a man does not have the sauce, then he is lost. But the same man can be lost in the sauce.” ~ Gucci Mane
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“If you want to sell a steak, you can’t just have the sizzle, you gotta have sauce.” ~ Don King
- “Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.” ~ Geoffrey Chaucer
- “Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.” ~ William Lethaby
- “If an architect makes a mistake, he grows ivy to cover it. If a doctor makes a mistake, he covers it with soil. If a cook makes a mistake, he covers it with some sauce and says it is a new recipe.” ~ Paul Bocuse
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“What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.” ~ Marcus Terentius Varro
- “Great ladies … are like the best sauces — it is better not to know how they are made.” ~ Octave Mirbeau
- “I originate from a family where sauce is viewed as a refreshment.” ~ Erma Bombeck
- “The steak ain’t right without the A-1
So I stay dipped in sauce and they come” ~ Mac Dre -
“There’s no sauce in the world like hunger.” ~ Miguel de Cervantes
- “When I was a kid, for my birthday every year, my mother made me pasta bechamel, which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce.” ~ Giada De Laurentiis
- “Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.” ~ Plutarch
- “When life is hard and the day has been long, the ideal dinner is not four perfect courses, each in a lovely pool of sauce whose ambrosial flavors are like nothing ever before tasted, but rather something comforting and savory, easy on the digestion – something that makes one feel, if even for only a minute, that one is safe.” ~ Laurie Colwin
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“It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.” ~ Saint Francis de Sales
- “If kids can learn how to make a simple Bolognese sauce, they will never go hungry. It’s pretty easy to cook pasta, but a good sauce is way more useful.” ~ Emeril Lagasse
- “I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily” ~ Marguerite Yourcenar
- “You can pour melted ice cream on regular ice cream. It’s like a sauce!” ~ Chris Pratt
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“Hunger is the best sauce in the world.” ~ Miguel de Cervantes
- “The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin. The next best vegetable is the jalapeno pepper. It has the virtue of turning salads into practical jokes.” ~ P. J. O’Rourke
- “You’re looking at that chick like you want to roll her up in a taco and put your hot sauce all over her.” ~ J.R. Ward , Hot sauce quotes
- “Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce.” ~ Norman Mailer
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“What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but it is not necessarily sauced for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the Guinea hen.” ~ Alice B. Toklas
- “Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.” ~ Thomas Tusser
- “Hunger is the best sauce.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
- “Mayonnaise, like hollandaise, was invented by the French to cover up the flavor of spoiled flesh, stale vegetables, rotten fish. Beware the sauce! Where food comes beslobbered with an elegant slime you may well suspect the integrity of the basic ingredients.” ~ Edward Abbey
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“Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.” ~ P. J. O’Rourke
- “The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.” ~ Henry James
- “Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.” ~ Nicholson Baker
- “Some guys smoke. Some guys drink. Some guys chase women.
I’m a big barbecue-sauce guy.” ~ Rick Majerus -
“Smother me in your hot sauce woman until smoke comes from your thighs.” ~ Thomas Dolby
- “If you’re craving oatmeal cookies, apple sauce won’t do.” ~ Eric Jerome Dickey
- “I didn’t have a sweet tooth, but I liked butter, and I liked sauces, and I liked wine and curry and cheeses.” ~ Maeve Binchy
- “Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with… Give us pasta with a hundred fillings.” ~ Robert Farrar Capon
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“You ever wonder when God’s coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?” ~ Chuck Palahniuk
- “I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.” ~ Elsa Maxwell
- “When I was younger, I ate nothing but fried food. Everything was fried, from oysters to chicken to potatoes to vegetables. When you die in New Orleans, they deep fry you before they put you in the coffin. When we baptize children in New Orleans, we baptize them with a bordelaise sauce; we don’t use water.” ~ Richard Simmons
- “It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that all things maybe made well or made ill. A work of art is a well-made thing – that is all. It may be a well-made statue of a well-made chair or a well-made book. Art is not a special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself that is good. Most simply and generally, Art may be thought of as “The Well Doing of What Needs Doing.”” ~ Oscar Wilde
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“First you bring the sugar, then you bring the hot sauce.” ~ Kevin Ollie
- “I can’t say that I follow a diet plan cause that would be a lie. I love eggs in the morning. I eat a lot of eggs. I love juice. I love sandwiches with protein and veggies. I love pasta with meat sauce. Anything that’s a well-rounded meal, I’m really happy with. As long as there is good protein and veggies then I’m all good with some carbs.” ~ Gigi Hadid
- “Who was the blundering idiot who said ‘fine words butter no parsnips’? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.” ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
- “There is no perfect spaghetti sauce. There are perfect spaghetti sauces.” ~ Howard Moskowitz
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“A man was found dead covered in sprinkles, strawberry sauce and a flake. Reports said he may have topped himself.” ~ Frank Carson
- “Choices are funny things-ask a native tribe that’s eaten grubs and roots forever if they’re unhappy, and they’ll shrug. But give them filet mignon and truffle sauce and then ask them to go back to living off the land, and they will always be thinking of that gourmet meal. If you don’t know there’s an alternative, you can’t miss it.” ~ Jodi Picoult
- “England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.” ~ Voltaire
- “That’s why there’s lots and lots of kinds of hot sauces, and not so many kinds of mustard. Not because it’s hard to make interesting mustard – you could make interesting mustard – but people don’t, because no one’s obsessed with it, and thus no one tells their friends.” ~ Seth Godin
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“I love disco and we sample it a lot for Duck Sauce. For me, that sound is kind of a new manifestation.” ~ A-Trak
- “The perfect bacon sandwich is on white bread, very soft and very thick. Sourdough with a good crust. The bacon is half way to being crispy – and there’s lots of it – and enough brown sauce to trickle down your arm. You’ve not really enjoyed a bacon sandwich unless 10 minutes later you’re still licking your wrists.” ~ Howard Jacobson
- “If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this lack of well used verbs is the main trouble with modern English writing. Almost all nonfiction nowadays is written in a sort of pale, colorless sauce of passives and infinitives, motionless and flat as paper.” ~ Rudolf Flesch
- “I never was much of an oyster eater, nor can I relish them ‘in naturalibus’ as some do, but require a quantity of sauces, lemons, cayenne peppers, bread and butter, and so forth, to render them palatable.” ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
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“The spaghetti sauce is a good thing to think about. Morning, noon, and night, think about the spaghetti sauce. Think about hustling other people to buy the spaghetti sauce.” ~ Paul Newman
- “You need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation, you have only to watch his eyes: a cook mixing a sauce, a surgeon making a primary incision, a clerk completing a bill of lading wear the same rapt expression, forgetting themselves in a function. How beautiful it is, that eye-on-the-obje ct look.” ~ W. H. Auden
- “Toast is bread made delicious and useful. Un-toasted bread is okay for children’s sandwiches and sopping up barbecue sauce, but for pretty much all other uses, toast is better than bread. An exception is when the bread is fresh from the oven, piping hot, with butter melting all over it. Then it’s fantastic, but I would argue that bread fresh out of the oven is a kind of toast. Because I’m an asshole and I refuse to be wrong about something.” ~ Steve Albini
- “I buy soy sauce and flavor it five different ways: with sake, mirin, sugar, kombu and bonito flakes. I use them on lots of dishes at home.” ~ Masaharu Morimoto
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“I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.” ~ Bernadette Peters
- “Dinner alone is one of life’s pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest. People lie when you ask them what they eat when they are alone. A salad, they tell you. But when you persist, they confess to peanut butter and bacon sandwiches deep fried and eaten with hot sauce, or spaghetti with butter and grape jam.” ~ Laurie Colwin
- “Don’t dunk your nigiri in the soy sauce. Don’t mix your wasabi in the soy sauce. If the rice is good, complement your sushi chef on the rice.” ~ Anthony Bourdain
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“This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, Which gives men stomach to digest his words With better appetite.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Whether it’s food or women, the ones on front street are supermodels. Big hair, big tits, big trouble, but the one you come home to is probably something like cavatelli and red sauce. She’s not screaming for attention because she knows she’s good enough even if your dumb ass hasn’t figured it out yet.” ~ Eddie Huang
- “You can tell by the applause: There’s perfunctory applause, there’s light applause, and then there’s real applause. When it’s right, applause sounds like vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce.” ~ Skitch Henderson
