“We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.”
Also in Recipes from an Edwardian Country House: A Stately English Home Shares Its Classic Tastes by Laura Schaefer [Simon & Schuster, 2013, ISBN 1-476-73033-4] ( p. 22 https://books.google.com/books?id=zZPzAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA22)
Source: The Moonstone [Street, 1868] ( p. 49 https://books.google.com/books?id=FmsOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA49).
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British writer 1824–1889Related quotes
“It's alright, I'm not going to steal your breakfast you fat prick.”
Barton's reported reaction following Frank Lampard's decision to move tables at England's training camp in order to avoid him. [January, 2007, http://orange.football365.com/Story/0,17169,8750_2156155,00.html, The Quotes Of The Season (Part Two), Football365, 2007-03-18].
“This was Dante's. Crazy was what we had for breakfast when we ran out of Corn Flakes”
Source: Hunt the Moon
“A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.”
Attributed in Aren't We Due a Royalty Statement? (1993) by Giles Gordon, and The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999) by Elizabeth M. Knowles, p. 14
“Cook me in your breakfast,
and put me on your plate,
'cause you know i taste great.”
-At the Hop
From Niño Rojo
Variant: Put me in your dry dreams
or put me in your wet
If you haven't yet.
Source: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter V : “—a wedding ring is not a ring in my nose—”, p. 41
“To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day.”
Quoted in Somerset Maugham (1980) by Ted Morgan