"My hour for tea is half-past five, and……" — Wilkie Collins
"My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody."
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55 Quotes by Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins has 55 quotes on this site.
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But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer…
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It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.
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Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre.…
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I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of…
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I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.
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The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies…
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We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.
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The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.
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I haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most…
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I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own…
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I haven't much time to be fond of anything . . . But when I have a moment's fondness to…
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More Buttered Quotes
This quote is filed under Buttered Quotes,
one of 34 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It's not too much and not too little, and it…
— Naveen Andrews
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Cast your bread upon the waters, and after many days it will come back buttered.
— Louisa May Alcott
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Cocoa-buttered girls were stretched out on the public beach in apparently random alignments, but maybe if a weather satellite zoomed…
— Bonnie Jo Campbell
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I was a great believer in hot buttered toast at all hours of the day.
— Frank O'Connor
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The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.
— Laurie Colwin
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I never had a piece of toast particularly long and wide, But fell upon the sanded floor, And always on…
— James Payn
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I love the unabashed over-buttered, over-creamed, deep-fried, gooey, over-sugared excessiveness of Amish food,
— Blaize Clement
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I never fancied broiling fowls; - though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one…
— Herman Melville
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Your mate doesn't live by bread alone; he or she needs to be 'buttered up' from time to time.
— Zig Ziglar
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I have made a mistake. They condemn me to death and I ask for a boy to coach me for…
— Hannah Kent
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I know on which side my bread is buttered.
— John Heywood
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