Quotes About Treacle

#1. There's nothing more daunting than a musical, but there's also no more direct line to joy. Getting there, though, is like pushing treacle up stairs.

Tim Curry

#2. Man may escape from rope and gun; Nay, some have outlived the doctor's pill: Who takes a woman must be undone, That basilisk is sure to kill. The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets, So he that tastes woman, woman, woman, He that tastes woman, ruin meets.

John Gay

#3. In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

George Bernard Shaw

#4. As he landed Wade said, was stepping through a wall of treacle The light, on your carbine,' and pointed with the torch he himself held.

Neal Asher

#5. I don't believe in publishers who wish to butter their bannocks on both sides while they'll hardly allow an author to smell treacle. I consider they are too grabby altogether and like Methodists they love to keep the Sabbath and everything else they can lay hands upon.

Amanda McKittrick Ros

#6. I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman
they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence

John Keats

#7. They chose the one nearest a gold-coloured cauldron that was emitting one of the most seductive scents Harry had ever inhaled: somehow it reminded him simultaneously of treacle tart, the woody smell of a broomstick handle and something flowery he thought he might have smelled at The Burrow.

J.K. Rowling

#8. She said yes three times, you treacle-brained idiot. Now can we get the hell out of this unsavory corner of London before we're all murdered? I have ledgers to tally.

Nicola Davidson

#9. I've probably had my best time acting - or not acting, or trying to not act - on things like 'The Low Down' or 'Treacle Jr.' I'm happiest doing things like that. Not just because they're lead roles, but because there's more freedom in them.

Aidan Gillen

#10. The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.

John Gay

#11. Harry would have pointed out that trouble didn't come much worse than having slugs pouring out of your mouth, but he couldn't; Hagrid's treacle toffee had cemented his jaws together.

J.K. Rowling

#12. My rich Diana. Fly me to the moon with you. Dance among the stars.
Treacle. Romantic hogwash. Derivative. Unworthy.
My rich Diana. I hate you, hate you, hate you. Hate you, hate.
"Do it," he said.

Dean Koontz

#13. I am told by my toad, Treacle, that Pangur Ban is the true lord of Wychwoode and a great friend of Gwydion. Has the cat not told you this himself yet?

Robert Carter

#14. To drown in treacle is just as unpleasant as to drown in mud.

Idries Shah

#15. Any man's measure is determined by what he will do when he is faced with his own deep need. Not how high he may reach but how low he may kneel.

Dr. J. Otis Yoder

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Silvio Scaglia

#17. I opened my arms to embrace you,
Never realizing when you glided into my prana,
To be within me,
To be the source of my energy.

Vishwas Chavan

#18. Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.

Thomas John Barnardo

#19. Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

Arianna Huffington

#20. A problem becomes a problem only if you believe it to be so. And often others see you as you see yourself.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#21. You made your own bed, and now curse others for putting you there.

Wesley Chu

#22. There are no rules by which intellectuals
can know what to say or do; nor for the true
secular intellectual are there any gods to be worshiped and looked to for unwavering guidance.

Edward Said

#23. There is no danger of exaggerating. We an never hope to fathom this inexpressible mystery nor will we ever be able to give sufficient thanks to our Mother for bringing us into such intimacy with the Blessed Trinity.

Josemaria Escriva

#24. I was in Redwood for almost six years. It was an acoustic trio that I still think was the best band I've ever been a part of. We do have a double CD of the Redwood stuff available called 'Lost But Not Really.' I'm very proud of the old Redwood stuff.

Bill Mumy

#25. It was as if the future were a treacly adhesive fluid that had been spilt all over the present, so that everything he touched made his fingers too sticky to be of the slightest use.

Hope Mirrlees

#26. It is impossible to be an anti-Communist and it is not possible to be a Communist.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#27. Well, I guess we all can't have epic loves at such a young age.

Jennifer E. Smith

#28. The assumption that the square of a unit vector
is positive unity leads to an algebra whose characteristic
quantities are non-associative.

Cargill Gilston Knott