Cake And Wine Quotes

#1. For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a glimpse of heaven, so we watch and strive to get a glimpse of earth. It is as if men had cake and wine every day but were sometimes allowed common bread.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#2. The visitors sat down, languid, and content to rest. Seecombe brought cake and wine.

Daphne Du Maurier

#3. My God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. The first story I ever sold was to 'Argosy' magazine, which no longer exists. That issue also contained work by several other more celebrated writers, like Ray Bradbury - so I felt I had at least one toe on the ladder.

Wilbur Smith

#5. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend,

Robert Wuhl

#6. I'm definitely not a fearless individual.

Serena Williams

#7. I'll have wine or a piece of cake once in a while, but I don't look at it as sliding backwards, even if I go a whole week without working out. I don't dwell on it and beat myself up - I just try to have a healthier day tomorrow.

Alison Sweeney

#8. If they don't care about me, how can they possibly care about anyone else?

Norma McCorvey

#9. I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mum and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently. 'Balance' is a really big word for me.

Angela Ahrendts

#10. There are those people who can eat one piece of chocolate, one piece of cake, drink one glass of wine. There are even people who smoke one or two cigarettes a week. And then there are people for whom one of anything is not even an option.

Abigail Thomas

#11. Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don't let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won't matter to you that the kitchen is a mess.

Esther Freud

#12. Somewhere after the dinner was served and before the cake was cut, Isabella lost Ben. Everyone at their table was up dancing and mingling. Isabella sat there and drank wine. She felt like a fool.

Jennifer Close

#13. Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb.

Seneca.

#14. I wonder if what I did made her hurt as much as she hurt me. Only fair, to trade hurt. But life isn't fair.

Ellen Hopkins

#15. This one day her mother gave her
a basket of wine and cake
to take to her grandmother
because she was ill.
Wine and cake?
Where's the aspirin? The penicillin?
Where's the fruit juice?
Peter Rabbit got camomile tea.
But wine and cake it was.

Anne Sexton

#16. A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up towards the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-coloured rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea.

F Scott Fitzgerald