Shortbread Quotes

#1. Classic Christmas cookies are really time-consuming. Instead, make a bar you can bake in a pan and just cut up, like a brownie or a blondie or a shortbread, which still has that Christmas vibe.

Zooey Deschanel

#2. There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.

Sean Connery

#3. I used to say Edinburgh was a beautiful actress with no talent. I thought it was just like a shortbread tin. I think that's because I did six Festivals in a row there, and I never saw the real Edinburgh, just a lot of deeply annoying Cambridge Footlights kids wanting to be actresses.

Michelle Gomez

#4. There is a pervasive myth that shortbread should never bake to the point of browning. I want to persuade you that a golden tint is not only okay but preferable. The buttery flavor will become more pronounced with a bit of color, and that is as essential an element to shortbread as its friable crumb.

Elisabeth Prueitt

#5. Have you ever learned the beautiful art of letting God take care of you and giving all your thought and strength to pray for others and for the kingdom of God? It will relieve you of a thousand cares.

A.B. Simpson

#6. People have become educated, but have not become human.

Abdul Sattar Edhi

#7. We can make a concerted effort to stop poisoning the planet: that would be a good way of appeasing the gods.

Simon Toyne

#8. The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

Booker T. Washington

#9. We give our time away all day long, to emotions that gain us no advantages, to people who do not value our time, to inefficient habits. If you want to take back this time, you need to cut to the chase.

Stuart R. Levine

#10. The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo during my stay.

George Grey