Quotes About Buttered

#1. You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

Tamora Pierce

#2. My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.

Wilkie Collins

#3. I realized that I've had a really rocky relationship with food - it has not been a gauzy, beautiful summer of ripe melons and perfectly buttered toast.

Kate Christensen

#4. When I was a kid and my mom made tomato soup, she would cut buttered toast into squares and float them on top of each bowl.

Tom Douglas

#5. Don't tell anyone I said it?"
I smiled. "I'll be quiet as a buttered snail sneaking through a Frenchman's kitchen.

Brandon Sanderson

#6. A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It's not too much and not too little, and it gives you just the right buzz.

Naveen Andrews

#7. She thrusts hurriedly into your hand an extremely hot buttered roll, flashes out a tiny pair of scissors, snips off the second button of your overcoat, meaningly ejaculates the one word, "parallelogram!" and swiftly flies down a cross street, looking back fearfully over her shoulder. That

O. Henry

#8. The idea of a sandwich as a snack goes back to Roman times. Scandinavians perfected the technique with the Danish open-faced sandwich, or smorroebrod, consisting of thinly sliced, buttered bread and many delectable toppings.

DeeDee Stovel

#9. She was going to eat warm, buttered bread and feel better.

Jill Shalvis

#10. But Time and Tide and Buttered Eggs wait for no man.

John Masefield

#11. It had a sort of mixed flavor of cherry-tart, custard, pineapple, roast turkey, toffy and hot buttered toast

Lewis Carroll

#12. A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

Charles Lamb

#13. The chance of the bread falling with the buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.

Murphy's Law

#14. Ministers fall like buttered slices of bread: usually on their good side.

Ludwig Borne

#15. I bet the sleazeball buttered you up with loads of compliments too?'
Cleo gave a grim nod. 'Yes, he did. He said my trowel was awesome.

Helen Moss

#16. My breath caught in my throat.
Buttered biscuits and honey.
You're not what I expected.

Myra McEntire

#17. Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.

Daniel Woodrell

#18. I'm glad to be eating the bread of freedom even if it does taste like sponge buttered with greasy salt.

Diane Samuels

#19. did she love you?
only as an extension of herself.
what else can love be?
the common sense to care very much for something very good. it needn't be related by bloodline. it can be a red beachball or a piece of buttered toast.

Charles Bukowski

#20. I was a great believer in hot buttered toast at all hours of the day.

Frank O'Connor

#21. Just because a frog says he's a prince doesn't mean you should kiss him. For all you know he's one of the arrogant, worthless princes who might better serve society as a pair of buttered legs on someone's plate.

Julie Wright

#22. A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway.

Joyce Brothers

#23. The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I like the crackling logs, the shaded lights, the scent of buttered toast, the general atmosphere of leisured cosiness.

P.G. Wodehouse

#24. What if it wasn't the guy from the bar? What if it was some freak out looking to whack some chick off because his mommy didn't make him buttered toast and cut it into fun shapes when he was a kid?

Dakota Cassidy

#25. The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.

Bradley Chicho

#26. Buttered, I lie on my single bed, flat, like a piece of toast. I

Margaret Atwood

#27. I never had a piece of toast particularly long and wide, But fell upon the sanded floor, And always on the buttered side.

James Payn

#28. What would angel lips taste like? Sunshine? Marshmallows? Or something altogether different? Maybe buttered-popcorn jelly beans.

Lisa M. Basso

#29. I was always a great believer in buttered toast.

Frank O'Connor

#30. Life is an ear of buttered corn waiting to get stuck in your teeth.

Truant D. Memphis

#31. I know on which side my bread is buttered.

John Heywood

#32. There are big bad wolves all over the world who tremble at the sound of his name, yet a little puny coyote girl peanut-buttered the seat of Bran Cornick's car because he told her that she should wear a dress to perform for the pack.

Patricia Briggs

#33. Some folk want their luck buttered.

Thomas Hardy

#34. I love the unabashed over-buttered, over-creamed, deep-fried, gooey, over-sugared excessiveness of Amish food,

Blaize Clement

#35. Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

Ambrose Bierce

#36. Strap a piece of toast -buttered side up- to the back of a cat. Throw the cat out of the window.
Will the cat land on its feet or will Murphy's law apply?

Alan Fletcher

#37. What I ate for breakfast on school mornings was one buttered roll
a soft roll, not a hard roll
and one cup of cocoa; any attempt to alter this menu I regarded as a plot to poison me.

Esther Hautzig

#38. Well it looks like the road to heaven
But it feels like the road to hell
When I knew which side my bread was buttered
I took the knife as well
Posing for another picture
Everybody's got to sell
But when you shake your ass
They notice fast
And some mistakes were built to last.

George Michael

#39. I know which side my bread is buttered on: the side which falls on the carpet.

Mignon McLaughlin

#40. My career is like an artichoke. People might think that the leaves are tasty and buttered up and delicious, and they don't even know that there's something magical hidden at the base of it. There's a whole other side of me that people didn't know existed.

Katy Perry

#41. My faith does not lead me to think the Lord will provide us with roast pig, bread already buttered, etc. He will provide us with the ability to raise the grain.

Brigham Young

#42. Success in TV-showmaking is just a matter of being authentic and doing the best you can, and you hope that people watch it and like it. For us [showmakers], we know where our bread is buttered, and we live by the written word of the critic. That's how shows build a critical mass on cable.

Walton Goggins

#43. A slab of bread "buttered" with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury.

Jimmy Hoffa

#44. Beginning with Bilbo's unexpected party in chapter 1 with its tea, seed-cakes, buttered scones, apple-tarts, mince-pies, cheese, eggs, cold chicken, pickles, beer, coffee, and smoke rings, we find that a reverence, celebration, and love of the everyday is an essential part of Tolkien's moral vision

Devin Brown

#45. Good motives butter no parsnips, and hell is paved with buttered parsnips.

Irvin S. Cobb

#46. And he wreaked havoc among the buttered toast as he said it.

Isaac Asimov

#47. I don't see what difference it makes what side it's [your bread] buttered on. I always eat both sides.

Gracie Allen

#48. The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.

Laurie Colwin

#49. This, as they used to say, was the side on which her bread was buttered.

Ian McEwan

#50. You have buttered your bread. Now you must lie on it.

Beverly Rycroft

#51. Your mate doesn't live by bread alone; he or she needs to be 'buttered up' from time to time.

Zig Ziglar

#52. By now it was clear that Howl was in a mood to produce green slime any second. Sophie hurriedly put her sewing away. "I'll make some hot buttered toast," she said. "Is that all you can do in the face of tragedy??" Howl asked. "Make toast!

Diana Wynne Jones

#53. Shucked and boiled in water, sweet corn is edible and nutritious; roasted in the husk in the hottest possible oven for forty minutes, shucked at the table, and buttered and salted, nothing else, it is ambrosia. No chef's ingenuity and imagination have ever created a finer dish.

Rex Stout

#54. I made a lot of exits through side doors, down fire escapes or over rooftops. I abandoned more wardrobes in the course of five years than most men acquire in a lifetime. I was slipperier than a buttered escargot.

Frank Abagnale

#55. 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

#56. Words once uttered, cannot be buttered, so season them all before you speak

Carrie King

#57. Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The heavier the lashing of the rain and the ghastlier the details, the better the flavour seems to be.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#58. Cast your bread upon the waters, and after many days it will come back buttered.

Louisa May Alcott

#59. You and I are so different: I am one word at a time one foot in front of the other, slowly, always testing how surely footing is before proceeding to the next sentence with ruminative breaks for buttered toast and coffee.

Carlene Bauer

#60. Something wonderful happens when you melt cheese between two pieces of buttered bread. The sight and the smell universally evoke smiles; it's magical. Everyone can relate

Heidi Gibson

#61. Some folks want their luck buttered.

Thomas Hardy

#62. I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.

Jesse Jackson

#63. Of all the hot liquors, I regard buttered rum as the worst. I believe that the drinking of it should be permitted only in the "Northwest Passage" and, even there, only by highly imaginative and overenthusiastic novelists.

David A. Embury

#64. I'm sure it's not all hot buttered crumpets out there in the breathing world of asphalt and heartbeats.

Jasper Fforde

#65. You've buttered your bread, now sleep in it.

Gracie Allen

#66. Yes, a bunch of carrots, observed directly, painted simply in the personal way one sees it, worth more than the Ecole's everlasting slices of buttered bread, that tobacco-juice painting, slavishly done by the book? The day is coming when a single original carrot will give birth to a revolution.

Paul Cezanne

#67. August is ripening grain in the fields blowing hot and sunny, the scent of tree-ripened peaches, of hot buttered sweet corn on the cob. Vivid dahlias fling huge tousled blossoms through gardens and joe-pye-weed dusts the meadow purple.

Jean Hersey