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Quotes about Peas

“We lived very simply - but with all the essentials of life well understood and provided for - hot baths, cold champagne, new peas and old brandy.”
Winston Churchill
'The Last Lion' by William Manchester (1993)

"I always eat my peas with honey;
I've done it all my life.
They do taste kind of funny but
It keeps them on my knife."
Anonymous

"How luscious lies the pea within the pod."
Emily Dickinson

 

"There was an Old Person of Dean,
Who dined on one pea and one bean;
For he said, 'More than that
     would make me too fat,'
That cautious Old Person of Dean."
Edward Lear, English artist, writer; known for his 'literary nonsense' & limericks  (1812-1888)

"Here's your large Rowley Powlies, no more than Six-pence a Peck . . . Rowley Powley, jolly Pease."
‘Cries of London’ (1784)