Top 53 Quotes About Custard
#1. Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.
Ambrose Bierce
#2. Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?
Yotam Ottolenghi
#3. You couldn't get worse food, or food more detached from nature, if you tried. If you have an apple, you're connected to an apple tree. If you have a dish of set custard and half a glace cherry you're not connected to anything.
Jo Walton
#4. Trying to make the presidency work these days is like trying to sew buttons on a custard pie.
James David Barber
#5. Lord, you're Irish," said Will. "Can you make things that don't have potatoes in them? We had an Irish cook once when I was a boy. Potato pie, potato custard, potatoes with potato sauce ...
Cassandra Clare
#6. It had all dropped into place, like the last bit of the jigsaw, which you thought all along was a bit of left-hand sky, but when you turn it over you realise it's the last chunk of right-hand sea, or the sky tricksily reflected in the surface of the pond.
Tom Holt
#7. We fired pie filling. That was the Faroes. When they tried to board us, we hit them with forty-five gallon shots of custard and banana creme.
Paul Watson
#8. Her dog Custard is a Pomeranian. He looks like a golden dandelion fluff with cat feet. Mrs.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#9. I took a cookery course. On the examination, I had to cook a cheese omelet with peas and an egg custard. With the egg custard, which was supposed to be a dessert, I forget to put the sugar in, so that's more of a quiche, isn't it?
Lesley Nicol
#10. I miss Manchester, especially the apple crumble and custard they served at Carrington after training.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#11. In the past few years, we've been doing amazing stuff with desserts. Pastry chefs have been using herbs and spices in their desserts. So vanilla cake doesn't have to be just vanilla, it can have a little thyme. Or you could have a custard with a little lavender in it, which is just amazing.
Ron Ben-Israel
#12. Traditional British desserts with lots of custard are my biggest weakness - I particularly love the puds at St. John restaurant in East London.
Eva Green
#13. Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#14. And what's interesting about him as a comic character is that the custard pie hardly ever ends up on his face.
Rowan Atkinson
#15. Linda shares her packet of Custard Creams with me, and Marion says "Picking is hungry work" in her bunged up voice, and I say, "Yeah, it is, Marion," and Marion's really happy, and I wish her life could be easier than it's going to be.
David Mitchell
#16. If I really believed in Friedman's economic theory, then I'd be quite satisfied to spend the rest of my life with a garden hose shoved down my throat, being filled with custard by representatives of the people of China.
Nigel Lawson
#17. We're a team like tea and milk, or cake and custard, or pork and apple.
Gail Carriger
#18. 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
#19. When you're three, you're into custard, and jumping.
Russell Howard
#20. The best part, however, was watching Rocky eat a pile of custard-filled, hot fudge-topped profiteroles. He could swear, after the third bite, she was going to have an orgasm and, watching her, he nearly had one.
Kristen Ashley
#21. Go, my dear, and see how thy grandmamma does, for I hear she has been very ill; carry her a custard, and this little pot of butter.
Andrew Lang
#22. I cannot be a monk, nor a crusader, nor a tumbler. I must stay here and hem sheets until I die. My humors are greatly out of balance. I prescribe for myself wormwood and spiced wine and some of the custard left from supper, and I will let all of the dogs sleep in my bed.
Karen Cushman
#23. Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie.
Hyman Rickover
#24. Then there was a time I woke up and there was your world coming at me like a custard pie thrown by the Creator and, well, I landed in the sea not far from the Circumfence widdershins of Krull.
Terry Pratchett
#25. She removed my empty plate, replaced it with a bowl containing a steaming slice of spotted dick with thick yellow custard drizzled all over it.
Neil Gaiman
#27. It had a sort of mixed flavor of cherry-tart, custard, pineapple, roast turkey, toffy and hot buttered toast
Lewis Carroll
#28. Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#29. Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.
Noel Gallagher
#30. Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple,
Lewis Carroll
#31. And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at a curate.
George Orwell
#32. Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard.
Spike Milligan
#33. It's all very well to say you are waiting; so am I waiting.' 'Father's a cowardy custard.' 'So are you a cowardy custard.' 'I'm not frightened.' 'Neither am I frightened.' 'Well, then, take it.' 'Well, then, you take it.
J.M. Barrie
#34. Custard puddings, sauces and fillings accompany the seven ages of man in sickness and in health.
Irma S. Rombauer
#36. Tastee-Freeze was a sort of frozen custard. It gave all the pleasure that ice cream could give, without the stiffness and bitter coldness of ice cream.
Kurt Vonnegut
#37. God simply faded into the background like our toys, into the distant past. And the memories of Sunday roasts with pudding and custard.
Abigail George
#38. Well, all right. Something in what you say, I suppose. Consider you treacherous worm and contemptible, spineless cowardly custard, but have booked Spink-Bottle. Stay where you are, then, and I hope you get run over by an omnibus. Love. Travers
P.G. Wodehouse
#40. Everyone deserves a little pampering when they're sick. I'm sure you'd do the same."
"Of course. I'd bring you mountains of cheese and frozen custard and coffee with too much cream and sugar."
"And stacks of eighties teen movies?"
"The very best ones."
"See? You'd spoil me, too.
Amy E. Reichert
#41. A dressing is not a compote A dressing is not a custard It consists of pepper and salt, Vinegar, oil and mustard.
Ogden Nash
#42. You strutted back and forth to the window at Fulsham's Custard Stand five times while I was sitting there, eatin' my cone the first time I saw you, 'cause you wanted some of this and got it by swinging your ass in my face.
Kristen Ashley
#44. The movies were custard compared to politics.
Nancy Reagan
#45. God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.
Lynn Redgrave
#46. There were little triangles of coconut custard pie on a graham cracker crust for dessert, the best and sweetest thing ...
Joe Hill
#47. The sinister nature of the American soil is apparent in places like Gettysburg. Fertilize it with the blood of heros, and it brings forth a frozen-custard stand.
Russell Baker
#48. Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.' - Senor Sempere.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#49. She talks big, but she's made of custard." "Fluffy and full of cream?" Kato wiggles blond eyebrows at me. Carver grins. "Think she's sweet, too?" My eyes spit fire. "Bite me. You'll find out.
Amanda Bouchet
#50. My favourite pudding is a toss-up between cheesecake - proper, New York cheesecake - and apple crumble and custard. Custard is very important, or dark chocolate mousse. Tea: probably Earl Grey, splash of milk.
Tom Hiddleston
#51. When you're nailing a custard pie to the wall, and it starts to wilt, it doesn't do any good to hammer in more nails. Now
Wallace Stegner
#52. Anarchy is like custard cooking over a flame; it has to be constantly stirred or it sticks and gets heavy, like government.
Tom Robbins
#53. We never make sport of religion, politics, race or mothers. A mother never gets hit with a custard pie. Mothers-in-law-yes. But mothers-never.
Mack Sennett
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