Describing Thomas E. Dewey, Harry S. Truman's Republican opponent, as quoted in The Washington Post (22 May 1951); also attributed to Walter Winchell.
“The most dangerous food is wedding cake.”
“She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.”
Quoted by her step-daughter Violet in The Listener, June 11, 1953.
Of Lady Desborough.
“I've been away from Hollywood so long, I feel like a spider on a wedding cake.”
On the set of Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960), as quoted in "Rambling Reporter" by Mike Connolly, Hollywood Reporter (December 10, 1958), p. 2
On Tony Pulis's style of management. Mirror Football, 10 December 2010
Holloway uses bizarre cake analogy for Pulis' Stoke style, Mirror Football, 2010-12-11, Jeremy, Butler, 2010-12-10 http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Stoke-v-Blackpool-Ian-Holloway-blasts-critics-of-Tony-Pulis-style-by-using-a-bizarre-cake-analogy-article648761.html,
Sourced quotes
I'm guessing this comes from having watched too many Second World War movies.
Essay, "Easy, tiger". p.80
Source: Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls (2013)
“Longer than a winter's night for a man who is ill-wed.”
Más largo
que una noche de Diciembre
para un hombre mal casado.
"Murmuraban los rocines", line 94, cited from Poesias de D. Luis de Gongora y Argote (Madrid: Imprenta Nacional, 1820) p. 83. Translation from Henry Baerlein The House of the Fighting-cocks (London: Leonard Parsons, 1922) p. 92.
“What did I do?" he said. "Cake! It's cake! Delicious cake!”
Source: Last Breath
“Where there's cake, there's hope. And there's always cake.”
Source: Life Expectancy (2004), Chapter 39; Tock family saying
