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Updated: June 28, 2025
"I spoke to her about it yesterday. And of course, we often have omelettes." "She can't make omelettes without breaking eggs," I urged. "She can't make them without breaking us, dammit," said Ukridge. "One or two more omelettes, and we're done for. No fortune on earth could stand it. We mustn't have any more omelettes, Millie. We must economise.
It was all very peaceful, all as it had been since some other cook made omelettes for the little aristocrat of an Irish grandmother who would not under any circumstances have sat in the kitchen on terms of familiarity with a dependent. The world had progressed much in democracy since those days. Those who had fought in this part of the country for liberty and equality had not really known it.
It appeared that V.V. did recall the thing, now that Sam mentioned it. He said introspectively: "So you think he's still got a grudge about that?... Well, I'm sorry, but that letter was all true, Sam, absolutely true, in all particulars.... Why," said he, "what's the use of talking? You can't have omelettes without breaking eggs. You cannot." "That's right. 'S what I came to talk about.
As the great Napoleon observed, you can no more make war without incurring losses than you can make omelettes without breaking eggs. The strategist and the tactician also, within his province will always count the cost of a proposed operation, even where they are nearly certain of success.
Embassies and consulates are by tradition like islands of the soil for which they stand; and I have often found the tradition corresponding to a truth. I have seen the unmistakable French official living on omelettes and a little wine and serving his sacred abstractions under the last palm-trees fringing a desert.
"It's six miles," I objected, "and a confoundedly hot day." "All the better for an omelette appetite." I thought of the omelettes in the tea shop of Poperinghe, and I knew that I was lost. "Can't you get horses?" I asked. "No luck. The transport has to shift to-day and there's nothing doing in that line. I asked just before lunch."
We had omelettes and native wine and black bread and got warm again and then trotted home in the rain and got wet again, so we stopped at the guard house on the outside of the rock and took tea with the officer in charge and we all got down on our knees around his fire and he hobbled around dropping his eyeglasses in his hot water and very much honored and exceedingly embarrassed.
The saloon tent had been stripped of its sides, and had nothing left but its roof; so when we sat down to table we could look out over a noble panorama of mountain, sea and hazy valley. And sitting thus, the sun rose slowly up and suffused the picture with a world of rich coloring. Hot mutton chops, fried chicken, omelettes, fried potatoes and coffee all excellent. This was the bill of fare.
With this make three or four omelettes about the thickness of a ten-cent piece. As the omelettes are finished lay them on a napkin to cool; then cut them transversely into strips about one-quarter of an inch wide. Then put the strips into a saucepan with some heated butter. Heat them through thoroughly and serve with grated cheese and the following meat sauce poured over them: MEAT SAUCE
By the time that Prescott was partly dressed the door opened and the old peasant looked in. "We are wondering what you can give us for breakfast?" Tom said in French. "Are eggs to be had to-day? Omelettes?" "Yes, I can get eggs," nodded the old man. "As you've not seen the color of my money yet," Tom continued, "please take this on account."
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