Quote by Ian McEwan Download Open image ““This, as they used to say, was the side on which her bread was buttered.”” — Ian McEwan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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I know which side my bread is buttered on: the side which falls on the carpet. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“I keep butter in my underwear, because it’s like a meat locker down there. Can I interest you in two rolls of bread?” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
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She looked as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth - or anywhere else. — Elsa Lanchester Copy Share Image
She looked as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth - or anywhere else. — Elsa Lanchester Copy Share Image
“The rhythm now came automatically, just like Mavis had said it would. And her thoughts could drift elsewhere as she worked. There was something… — Lauraine Snelling Copy Share Image
“Flakes of buttery dough melted on her tongue, rained into the décolletage of her dress, and scattered like her thoughts the moment a hint… — Maggie Wells Copy Share Image
“As you will see, we do not believe that artists have an obligation to strike up attitudes to the war. Indeed, they are wise… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“It is shaming sometimes, how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions.” — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“While my friends struggled and calculated, I reached a solution by a set of floating steps that were partly visual, partly just a feeling… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Once, on a walk by a river- Eskdale in low reddish sunlight, with a dusting of snow- his daughter quoted to him an opening… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it's one of those cases of a microcosm giving you the whole world. Like a spode dinner plate. Or a single cell. Or,… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
Who you get, and how it works out- there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of your conscious choice… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“On Chesil Beach he could have called out to Florence, he could have gone after her. He did not know, or would not have… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I would rather be physically disabled obviously than mentally. I would rather be paraplegic than nuts. And it is a terrifying prospect and actually… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
