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Cake Quotes - Page 13

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.338

There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.

James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.40, Courier Corporation

Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there'll come a time when you'll start asking just for a crust.

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Richard Freeborn (1999). “First Love, and Other Stories”, p.100, Oxford University Press, USA

White grapes are very attractive but when it comes to dessert people generally like cake with icing.

Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.126, Vintage

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.25, Pan Macmillan

Plus, in one of his e-mails, the guy said he didn't like pancakes. What kind of asshole doesn't like pancakes?

A. J. Jacobs (2009). “The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment”, p.9, Simon and Schuster