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Butter Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other…
- Werther had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and…
- Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter.
More Butter Quotes
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- I make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich. — Jack Black
- About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs. — Manolo Blahnik
- In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, and… — Julia Child
- I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or… — Julia Child
- Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that. — Fiona Apple
- The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like… — Charles Dickens
- Now, because he knows that his economic theories don't work, he's been spending these last few days calling me every name in… — Barack Obama
- I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food,… — Heinrich Heine
- See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps-often but old bottles and vials, though. ... He burns, too,… — Herman Melville
- In the centre of a spacious table rose a pastry as large as a church, flanked on the north by a quarter… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
- All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter — Joseph Addison