Quotes about toast

A collection of quotes on the topic of toast, likeness, butter, time.

Quotes about toast

Percy Bysshe Shelley photo
The Notorious B.I.G. photo
Sting photo

“I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear
I like my toast done on one side…"

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Sting (1951) English musician

Source: Nothing Like the Sun

Mark Twain photo

“We haven't all had the good fortune to be ladies; we haven't all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Answering a toast, "To the Babies," at a banquet in honor of General U.S. Grant (November 14, 1879).
The Writings of Mark Twain, Vol. 20 (1899), ed. Charles Dudley Warner, p. 397 http://books.google.com/books?id=mRARAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA397

Lewis Carroll photo

“Oh, when I was a little Ghost,
A merry time had we!
Each seated on his favourite post,
We chumped and chawed the buttered toast
They gave us for our tea.”

Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer

Canto 4, "Hys Nouryture"
Phantasmagoria (1869)

Nicholas Sparks photo

“He was the toast to her butter.”

Source: The Lucky One

Janet Evanovich photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo

“Be kind to dragons, for thou art crunchy when toasted and taste good with ketchup. (Sebastian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Variant: Be kind to dragonswans, for thou art gorgeous when naked and taste good with cool whip. (Channon)
Source: Dragonswan

Rick Riordan photo
P.G. Wodehouse photo
Ernest Hemingway photo
Tom Robbins photo
Gerald Durrell photo
Orson Welles photo

“A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.”

Orson Welles (1915–1985) American actor, director, writer and producer

Source: Citizen Kane

Graham Chapman photo
Dallas Willard photo

“Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.”

Dallas Willard (1935–2013) American philosopher

Source: Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God

Patricia Highsmith photo
Haruki Murakami photo
T.S. Eliot photo

“Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.”

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Context: There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands,
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.

P.G. Wodehouse photo
Wilkie Collins photo

“My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”

Volume II [Tauchnitz, 1860] ( p. 226 https://books.google.com/books?id=xAm2X8YfpJIC&pg=PA226)
Also in The Secret Ingredient by Laura Schaefer [Simon & Schuster, 2012, ISBN 1-442-41960-1] ( p. 169 https://books.google.com/books?id=o1ctj37QuikC&pg=PA169)
Source: The Woman in White (1859)

Christopher Moore photo
Jonathan Maberry photo
Steven Wright photo

“I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time" so I ordered French toast during the Renaissance.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Variant: I went to a restaurant that serves «breakfast at any time». So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

Steven Wright photo
Pete Doherty photo

“Doff your cap and raise your glasses,
Make a toast to the boring classes
I'm burning your secrets to keep me warm.”

Pete Doherty (1979) English musician, writer, actor, poet and artist

"Love on the Dole"
Lyrics and poetry

Bobby Troup photo
Dan Fogelberg photo

“We drank a toast to innocence
We drank a toast to now.
And tried to reach beyond the emptiness
But neither one knew how.”

Dan Fogelberg (1951–2007) singer-songwriter, musician

Same Old Lang Syne.
Song lyrics, The Innocent Age (1981)

Adolf Eichmann photo
Beck photo
Damian Pettigrew photo

“We lunched in Fregene: grilled sardines sprinkled with parsley and lemon. Federico ate daintily, like someone with no appetite. The beach was deserted, the wind brisk. In the distance stood the abandoned lighthouse he filmed for 8 1/2. Like someone about to propose a toast, he stood up and "recited" from King Lear :
Hark! Have you heard the news? The king fell off a cliff.
O horrible! Were you very close to him?
Indeed, sir. Close enough to push.
We laughed until he brusquely sat down again, scraping the fish scales off his fingers, staring at the age spots that covered his hands. The beautiful adolescent waitress asked for his autograph. He drew himself as a man-lion in a hat and scarf with huge paws chasing her, and signed it "Féfé." We spent the afternoon visiting Ostia and returned to Rome in a sweltering twilight. He asked to be driven home for a change of clothes. We invited Giulietta, who wore a green velvet turban, to join us for dinner. (Had she already lost her hair from chemotherapy?) Graciously, she declined while smoking cigarette after cigarette. At Cesarina's, Federico drew hilarious, pornographic sketches on the table napkin saying, "If you have not made love today then you have lost a day!"”

Damian Pettigrew Canadian filmmaker

The entire restaurant was at his feet. He was twenty years old now and as thin as Kafka. He was Rome. He had adopted us the way Rome adopts everyone, and we loved him.
On Fellini's final years
Federico Fellini: Sou um Grande Mentiroso (2008)

Saki photo

“Coffee in England is just toasted milk.”

Christopher Fry (1907–2005) British writer

New York Post, November 29, 1962

Talib Kweli photo

“These cats drink champagne and toast to death and pain,
Like slaves on a ship talking about who's got the flyest chain”

Talib Kweli (1975) American rapper

Africa Dream (track 8)
Albums, Reflection Eternal (2000)

John Harvey Kellogg photo
Werner von Blomberg photo
Nick Cave photo

“My body is a monster driven insane,
My heart is a fish toasted in flames.”

Nick Cave (1957) Australian musician

Song lyrics, Prayers on Fire (1981), Zoo-Music Girl

Edgar Degas photo
Paul Merson photo

“He's hit the beans on toast.”

Paul Merson (1968) English footballer and manager

Interview on Rileys' News http://www.rileys.co.uk/news/240.

Larry Ellison photo

“If the Internet turns out not to be the future of computing, we're toast. But if it is, we're golden.”

Larry Ellison (1944) American internet entrepreneur, businessman and philanthropist

Statement in 1999, as quoted in "Oracle's Talking: Should You Be Listening?" by Jeff Sweat in Information Week (7 February 2000) http://www.informationweek.com/772/oracle.html.

Ben Croshaw photo
John Steinbeck photo
Ma Zhanshan photo

“A toast to America! A toast to China!”

Ma Zhanshan (1885–1950) Chinese politician

[CHINA-JAPAN: Hero Ma, TIME, 23 November 1931, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,742656-2,00.html]

Billy Joel photo
Albert Speer photo
Karl Pilkington photo

“Where you are is what you eat. When I'm in London I'll have beans on toast for lunch. On holiday — what? Tapas? Go on then I'll have a bit. You eat whatevers in that area.”

Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer

Podcast Series 3 Episode 5
On Food

Brian W. Aldiss photo
Ilana Mercer photo
Oliver Goldsmith photo
Jonathan Mitchell photo
Richard Brinsley Sheridan photo
Seamus Heaney photo

“Don't be surprised if I demur, for, be advised
My passport's green.
No glass of ours was ever raised
To toast The Queen.”

Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer

An Open Letter (1983), p. 9.
Objecting to his inclusion in The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry.
Other Quotes

Nelson Mandela photo
John Quincy Adams photo

“I can never join with my voice in the toast which I see in the papers attributed to one of our gallant naval heroes. I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong. Fiat justitia, pereat coelum. My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.”

John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) American politician, 6th president of the United States (in office from 1825 to 1829)

Letter to his father, John Adams (1 August 1816), referring to the popular phrase "My Country, Right or Wrong!" based upon Stephen Decatur's famous statement "Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right, but our country, right or wrong." The Latin phrase is one that can be translated as : "Let justice be done though heaven should fall" or "though heaven perish".

F. Scott Fitzgerald photo
Anthony Burgess photo
Elie Wiesel photo

“What is abnormal is that I am normal. That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life — that is what is abnormal.”

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

After being asked "What does it take to be normal again, after having your humanity stripped away by the Nazis?" in an interview in O : The Oprah Magazine (November 2000)

Hans Arp photo
Helen Rowland photo

“Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.”

Helen Rowland (1875–1950) American journalist

Syncopations
A Guide to Men (1922)

Robert Louis Stevenson photo

“Many's a long night I've dreamed of cheese — toasted mostly.”

Source: Treasure Island (1883), Ch. 15, The Man of the Island.

Daniel T. Gilbert photo
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston photo
Titus Salt photo

“Ladies and gentlemen, it is with no ordinary feelings, I assure you, that I rise on this occasion to thank you for the very flattering manner in which you have received the last toast, and for the good wishes expressed therein. I cannot look around me, and see this vast assemblage of my friends and workpeople, without being moved. I feel gratified at this day's proceedings; I also feel greatly honoured by the presence of the nobleman at my side. I am more than all delighted at the presence of this vast assemblage of my workpeople. Perhaps it may be permitted me to remark that ten or twelve years ago I was looking forward to this day (on which I complete my his fiftieth year) as the period when I hoped to retire from business and enjoy myself in agricultural pursuits, which would be quite congenial to my mind and inclination. As the time drew near, looking at my large family (five of them being sons) I reversed that decision, and resolved to proceed a little longer and remain at the head of the firm. Having thus determined, I at once made up my mind to leave Bradford. I did not like to be a party to increasing that already overcrowded borough, but I looked around for a site suitable for a large manufacturing establishment, and I fixed upon this, as offering every capability for a first rate manufacturing and commercial establishment. It is also, from the beauty of its situation, and the salubrity of the air, a most desirable place for the erection of dwellings. Far be it from me to do anything to pollute the air or the water of the district. I shall do my utmost to avoid these evils, and I have no doubt of being successful. I hope to draw around me a population that will enjoy the beauties of this neighbourhood—a population of well paid, contented, happy operatives. I have given instructions to my architects (who are competent to carry them out) that nothing shall be spared to render the dwellings of the operatives a pattern to the country, and if my life is spared by Divine Providence, I hope to see satisfaction, contentment, and happiness around me.”

Titus Salt (1803–1876) English industrialist and philanthropist

The speech he made to the 3,500 guests (including his workers) at the banquet on 1853-09-20, which he held to celebrate both his fiftieth birthday and the opening of his new factory at Saltaire. [Inauguration of the works at Saltaire, The Bradford Observer, 1853-09-22, 8, http://find.galegroup.com/bncn/retrieve.do?sgHitCountType=None&orientation=&scale=0.33&sort=DateAscend&docLevel=FASCIMILE&prodId=BNCN&tabID=T012&subjectParam=Locale%2528en%252C%252C%2529%253ALQE%253D%2528jn%252CNone%252C17%2529Bradford%2BObserver%253AAnd%253ALQE%253D%2528da%252CNone%252C10%252909%252F22%252F1853%2524&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchId=R2&searchType=BasicSearchForm&currentPosition=11&qrySerId=Locale%28en%2C%2C%29%3ALQE%3D%28jn%2CNone%2C17%29Bradford+Observer%3AAnd%3ALQE%3D%28da%2CNone%2C10%2909%2F22%2F1853%24&subjectAction=DISPLAY_SUBJECTS&retrieveFormat=MULTIPAGE_DOCUMENT&enlarge=&bucketSubId=&inPS=true&userGroupName=brad&hilite=y&docPage=article&nav=prev&sgCurrentPosition=0&docId=R3207957429, 2012-06-07 (subscription site)]
A slightly edited version (in the third person) appears in [Holroyd, Abraham, 1873, 2000, Saltaire and its Founder, Piroisms Press, ISBN 0-9538601-0-8, 14-15]

Chip Tsao photo

“What else would be as impressive as a status symbol than when you are visiting a billionaire for lunch and you and dozens of other refined guests are offered a glass of fresh milk to toast everybody’s health, instead of a glass of Chateau Rotschild Lafitte?”

Chip Tsao (1958) columnist, broadcaster, and writer

Politically Incorrect with Chip Tsao - The Vintage Year http://hk-magazine.com/feature/politically-incorrect-chip-tsao-vintage-year, HK Magazine

Spider Robinson photo
Immortal Technique photo

“A toast to the dead, for children with cancer and AIDS; a cure exists, and you probably could have been saved.”

Immortal Technique (1978) American rapper and activist

"A Toast to the Dead"
, 2011

“My man is an ogre and there is nothing he likes better than boys broiled on toast.”

English Fairy Tales (1890), Preface to English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk

“We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.”

Alan Perlis (1922–1990) American computer scientist

Quoted in The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.

P. J. O'Rourke photo
Bill Bailey photo
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham photo

“Our toast in general is,—Magna Charta, the British Constitution,—PITT and Liberty forever!”

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708–1778) British politician

"A Son of Liberty in Bristol County, Mass.", Newport Mercury (19 May, 1766) on the repeal of the Stamp Act.
C. Rossiter, Seedtime of the Republic (New York, 1953), p. 360.
About William Pitt

John Quincy Adams photo

“I can never join with my voice in the toast which I see in the papers attributed to one of our gallant naval heroes. I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong. Fiat justitia, pereat coelum.”

John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) American politician, 6th president of the United States (in office from 1825 to 1829)

My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
Letter to his father, John Adams (1 August 1816), referring to the popular phrase "My Country, Right or Wrong!" based upon Stephen Decatur's famous statement "Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right, but our country, right or wrong." The Latin phrase is one that can be translated as : "Let justice be done though heaven should fall" or "though heaven perish".

T.S. Eliot photo
Prevale photo

“When you don't know what to toast to, toast to life: it's not endless.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Quando non sapete a cosa brindare, brindate alla vita: non è infinita.
Source: prevale.net