Top 100 Bread And Butter Quotes
#1. Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and Russians, sadly have very little staying power in these lickety-split Modern Times.
Marisha Pessl
#2. The purpose of our activities on earth must go beyond bread and butter or merely surviving.
Sunday Adelaja
#3. For most of us a job is bread and butter and for most of others its just bread and butter.
Aniruddha Sastikar
#4. Daily sitting is our bread and butter, the basic stuff of dharma. Without it we tend to be confused.
Charlotte Joko Beck
#5. The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a lumber yard.
Charles Dickens
#6. Famous women keep their same names even after they get married because their names are their bread and butter.
Stephen King
#7. I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.
Miguel De Cervantes
#8. Leave me to die a lonely death.
An artist's death.
A writer's playground.
A painter's background.
A philosopher's bread and butter.
An endeavor that we
all face. I just hope that
I'm not the only one
there.
A.P. Sweet
#9. The interpretive element of 'Lost' - the fact that you immediately need, as soon as the episode is over, to seek out a community of people to express your own thoughts about it, understand what they thought about it and form an opinion - that's the bread and butter of the show.
Damon Lindelof
#10. Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#11. I want to open a wheat/dairy factory. Bread and butter will be my bread and butter.
Jarod Kintz
#12. ...so I took it out with me into the garden, because the dullest book takes on a certain saving grace if read out of doors, just as bread and butter, devoid of charm in the drawing-room, is ambrosia eaten under a tree.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#13. Those who want to learn more than bread and butter shall be able to make this world a better place ...
Dinesh Kumar
#14. Werther had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#15. 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
#17. The only extra plates ever permitted are the bread and butter plates which are put on at breakfast and lunch and supper above and to the left of the forks, but never at dinner.
Emily Post
#18. A man's bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.
Marcus Garvey
#19. I was raised in Mississippi, so heat and humidity is my bread and butter. It keeps me going. I can't stand cold weather.
Morgan Freeman
#20. False hope is the bread - and - butter of my existence, the only thing that keeps me going.
Rob Payne
#21. Identifying niches and filling them is the bread and butter of the regular interplay between markets and entrepreneurs.
Paul Polak
#23. Every time I go into a tournament, I'm strictly on my own. I know I'm playing for my bread and butter.
Charlie Sifford
#24. Ruth puts in all the tiddley bits and the expression and doesn't mind how many wrong notes she strikes, but with Jane it is accuracy or nothing. I don't know which Chopin would have hated more, Eleanor said, folding bread and butter into a thickness that would match her appetite.
Josephine Tey
#25. All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter.
Louisa May Alcott
#26. I spent many years in grad school in English, so I've read a lot in a variety of genres. But adventure fantasy is my bread and butter as a reader, and probably always will be. So it's only natural that I came to that genre as a writer.
Saladin Ahmed
#27. The matter of fees is important, far beyond the mere question of bread and butter involved. Properly attended to, fuller justice is done to both lawyer and client.
Abraham Lincoln
#28. For a pediatrician to attack what has become the "bread and butter" of pediatric practice is equivalent to a priest denying the infallibility of the pope.
Robert S. Mendelsohn
#29. Our supper was only half an anchovy each, on a very little strip of bread and butter, and half a pint of ale between us; but the entertainment was in her conversation.
Benjamin Franklin
#30. Have some bread and butter. The bread
and butter is for Gwendolen. Gwendolen is devoted to bread and
butter.
Oscar Wilde
#31. In moments of considerable strain, I tend to take to bread-and-butter pudding. There is something about the blandness of soggy bread, the crispness of the golden outer crust and the unadulterated pleasure of a lightly set custard that makes the world seem a better place to live.
Clement Freud
#32. My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.
Rita Dove
#33. Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc., being brought in as other guests arrive.
Isabella Beeton
#34. Wanting to be near my bread and butter business which was my hairstyling salon, I have done little touring during my lifetime. I hate all this moving around from hotel to hotel, packing and unpacking. I know many entertainers agree with me on this subject.
Thomas Lynch
#35. If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet.
Ernest Bevin
#36. I'll always have a score-first mentality, because that is my bread and butter on the floor.
Kevin Love
#37. I have an interest in getting government officials to talk to me about National Security affairs. You know, that's my bread and butter; that's how I make my living.
Scott Shane
#38. I've done my share of period stuff. I'm not sure why, but people say I have a period face. The bread and butter of British TV is Jane Austen adaptations and bridges and bonnets and boats and horses.
Tom Hiddleston
#39. Ultimately, these fans that we're blessed enough to have, the ones who pay money for tickets to come see us live, that's the bread and butter. That's the basis of what this is. Before I ever had the chance to record an album, the live show is what it's been about.
Cody Johnson
#40. My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.
Alastair Campbell
#41. When I was in college in Chicago, I was doing a lot of commercials - that was my bread and butter.
Janina Gavankar
#42. Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy.
Alan Bennett
#43. When not writing and directing, my bread and butter comes from acting and stunt work. I've been fortunate enough to be part of some amazing productions.
Mike Mayhall
#44. Everyone has their different tastes in regards to power, just like everyone has their different tastes for food or sex. My bread and butter is feeling like my mind and my ideas are shaping the world around me, which is of course why I bother writing the blog.
M.E. Thomas
#45. I had to make a living. I had the mortgage to pay, I had the school fees to pay. I had bread and butter to put on the table. You know your worth as an actor, but you have to get a job.
Pierce Brosnan
#46. From the time I was twelve I was dancing for bread and butter, but in my heart I was always an actress.
Rita Hayworth
#47. Not a deed would he do,
Not a word would he utter,
Till he's weighed its relation
To plain bread and butter.
James Russell Lowell
#48. You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.
Compton Mackenzie
#49. You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.
Oscar Wilde
#50. In order to save the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, our colonial statesmen must acquire new lands for settling the surplus population of this country, to provide new markets ... The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question.
Cecil Rhodes
#51. People disappear all the time. Ask any policeman. Better yet, ask a journalist. Disappearances are bread-and-butter to journalists.
Diana Gabaldon
#52. My unhealthiest habit is that I like eating white bread and butter. I don't know why, I just ate it as a kid. It's weird but I love it. My healthiest? I make a really good quinoa, chickpea and tahini lemon dressing salad, or I make a really bomb green smoothie.
Courtney Eaton
#53. About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
Manolo Blahnik
#54. I had staked all on Gussie making a favourable impression on his hostess, basing my confidence on the fact that he was one of those timid, obsequious, teacup-passing, thin-bread- and-butter-offering, yes-men whom women of my Aunt Dahlia's type nearly always like at first sight.
P.G. Wodehouse
#55. What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.
James Russell Lowell
#56. Do not give up your dream because it is apparently not being realized, because you cannot see it coming true. Cling to your vision with all the tenacity you can muster. Keep it bright; do not let the bread-and-butter side of life cloud your ideal or dim it.
Orison Swett Marden
#57. If we give someone a piece of bread and butter, that's kindness, but if we put jelly or peanut butter on it, then it's Loving Kindness.
Barbara Johnson
#58. There's this tradition of women's magazines - which have been my bread and butter as a freelancer - where the paradigm is that the writing is about relationships, body image, lessons, and it's always redemptive.
Meghan Daum
#59. 'Up the Junction' went on to inform my love of British social realism. It was the first film I saw of this ilk, a very stark, visceral reflection of England, an England I didn't necessarily feel a part of but that I knew was out there. You could almost smell the bread and butter and cabbage.
Gurinder Chadha
#60. "She can't do Subtraction." said the White Queen. "Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife-what's the answer to that?" "I suppose-" Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen answered for her. "Bread-and-butter, of course."
Lewis Carroll
#61. In a lot of ways, the way you're making your bread and butter is off people who aren't necessarily who you're writing for.
Will Sheff
#62. You can't smell a hug. You can't hear a cuddle. But if you could, I reckon it would smell and sound of warm bread-and-butter pudding.
Nigel Slater
#63. I'm trying to treat it as a hobby. Making bread and butter as an actor is tough.
Frank Silva
#64. Playing show after show is like my bread and butter.
Ani DiFranco
#65. The time after college and before music was really rough. I couldn't afford food. I was eating bread and butter for five months. Living in New Orleans, I couldn't afford to take care of myself. I had no health insurance.
Benjamin Booker
#66. I love actors. That's my bread and butter, and I got to work with some amazing ones on '12 Years'.
Steven Rodney McQueen
#67. In a few minutes tea was brought. Very delicate was the china, very old the plate, very thin the bread-and-butter, and very small the lumps of sugar. Sugar was evidently Mrs. Jamieson's favourite economy.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#68. If you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it's hard to beat bread and butter.
Jacques Pepin
#69. I still do live concerts all over the country - about four a month - with singing and characters and improv. It keeps me limber. I'll never lose that. And comedy is still the bread and butter.
Martin Short
#70. Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy.
Ice Cube
#71. All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
Joseph Addison
#72. She had to live. It is useless to quarrel with one's bread and butter. And to expect a great deal out of life is puerile.
D.H. Lawrence
#73. Harris said, however, that the river would suit him to a "T." I don't know what a "T" is (except a sixpenny one, which includes bread-and- butter and cake AD LIB., and is cheap at the price, if you haven't had any dinner). It seems to suit everybody, however, which is greatly to its credit.
Jerome K. Jerome
#74. The music has always been my bread and butter, and I've focused more of my attention on that.
Al Yankovic
#75. Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.
Jules De Goncourt
#77. It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it.
Garth Ennis
#78. If you dispute with me you will only quarrel with your bread and butter.
Francis Bond Head
#80. I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless you give at least 45 minutes of careful, fatiguing reflection upon what you are reading, your minutes are chiefly wasted.
Arnold Bennett
#81. Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.
Fiona Apple
#82. Good bread and good butter go together. They are one of the perfect marriages in gastronomy, and they never fail to cheer me.
James Beard
#83. Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.
Leigh Hunt
#84. Francie, Neeley, and mama had a very fine meal. Each had a thick slice of the "tongue," two pieces of sweet-smelling rye bread spread with unsalted butter, a sugar bun apiece and a mug of strong hot coffee with a teaspoon of sweetened condensed milk on the side.
Betty Smith
#85. I eat a huge breakfast every morning - it's what I look forward to. I'll do steel-cut oatmeal with blueberries and strawberries, an egg white scramble with mushrooms, zucchini, and onion, and a piece of cinnamon Ezekiel bread with almond butter. I could do that every single day.
Heather Mitts
#86. My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time.
Julia Roberts
#87. There is excellent provision made of dainty new bread, crusty twists, cool fresh butter, thin slices of ham, tongue, and German sausage, and delicate little rows of anchovies nestling in parsley, not to mention new-laid eggs, to be brought up warm in a napkin, and hot buttered toast. For
Charles Dickens
#88. My whole family is obsessed by brandy butter. And bread sauce. Then, of course, there will be a lot of wind in the afternoon! We have never disguised the wind side of our lives as a family; we think it's hilarious.
Miranda Hart
#89. Some men are friends with the whole world in their hearts, and there are others that hate themselves and spread their hatred around like butter on hot bread.
John Steinbeck
#90. I detest ... anything over-cooked, over-herbed, over-sauced, over elaborate. Nothing can go very far wrong at table as long as there is honest bread, butter, olive oil, a generous spirit, lively appetites and attention to what we are eating.
Sybille Bedford
#91. I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.
Vijender Singh
#92. I baked bread, hand-ground peanuts into butter, grew and froze vegetables, and, every morning, packed lunches so healthful that they had no takers in the grand swap-fest of the lunchroom.
Sally Mann
#93. If you love a person in the real sense, you want them to be happy, not take them like butter and spread them thinly over your own bread, to make it more palatable for yourself.
Nella Last
#94. Admit it, Ella. It's not so bad being a carnivore."
I reached for a chunk of bread and dabbed it in soft yellow butter. "I'm not a carnivore, I'm an opportunistic omnivore.
Lisa Kleypas
#95. You are the butter to my bread,and the breath to my life
Julia Child
#96. As I move along the line, other food items are plunked onto my tray: a small salad of iceberg lettuce and bacos, a slice of white bread with a pat of Hotel Holiday butter and blob of red Jell-O with fruit cocktail trapped inside. Instantly, I feel compassion for the trapped fruit.
Augusten Burroughs
#97. Some things, however, should happen in the correct order. Shoes go on after socks. Peanut butter is applied after the bread comes out of the toaster, not before. And grandchildren are born after their grandparents.
Rysa Walker
#98. We dug the asparagus, and tonight Aunt Charlotte cooked it for me herself with butter and melted cheese. I ate a whole plateful and drank half the brown jug of sweet milk. Then I had two slices of the thick coarse-grain bread that Aunt and the nuns make fresh every day.
Kathryn Lasky
#99. I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.
Dodie Smith
#100. Q: What do peanut butter and hookers have in common? A: Both spread for bread.
Evelyn Beilenson
