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Quotes About Butter

I Can't Believe It's Not Butter? I can.
~ Anthony Bourdain
We were brought hot, delicious coffee and fresh butter rolls. Have you ever eaten sugared egg cookies? That's how good those rolls were. Maybe better. And the coffee! I can't begin to describe it. A taste of Paradise!
~ Sholom Aleichem
Little bits were one of Dorey Jewett's gems: small, sweet lobster knuckles that were sautéed in butter. There were no herbs involved, just enough of a Ritz-cracker coating to absorb the butter for ease of eating.
~ Barbara Delinsky
Dorey says the key to chowder is letting the ingredients cure in the pot for a day before dishing it up, which is counterintuitive since fried clams are best right after they're dug. Personally, I think it's the chives in the chowder." Pensive, she studied her empty bowl. "Or the bacon. Or the parsley." Her eyes rose. "Maybe it's just the butter. Since Dorey's chowder is Maine style, more milk than cream, the butter shines.
~ Barbara Delinsky
Try telling people in the Seventies that butter was healthier for you than margarine, and they would force feed you with Stork.
~ Jasper Carrott
All European food in Burma is more or less disgusting—the bread is spongy stuff leavened with palm-toddy and tasting like a penny bun gone wrong, the butter comes out of a tin, and so does the milk, unless it is the grey watery catlap of the dudh-wallah.
~ George Orwell
He seems to have a passable knowledge of how to pretend to churn butter.
~ George Saunders
Madame Altamont was leaving for a holiday. With her characteristic concern for propriety and orderliness, she emptied her refrigerator and gave the left-overs to the concierge: two ounces of butter, a pound of fresh green beans, two lemons, half a pot of redcurrant jam, a dab of fresh cream, a few cherries, a port of milk, a few bits of cheese, various herbs, and three Bulgarian-flavour yoghurts.
~ Georges Perec
How could they know that a miller's not just as greedy as a hole in the ground, but as slippery as a handful of butter as well?
~ Geraldine McCaughrean
I have a lot of tea in the morning. I always have toast and peanut butter.
~ Joanna Coles
On Christmas morning breakfast is always thick slices of ham, thick white toast, butter and pepper - oh and a glass of fizz!
~ John Torode
I'm from Ghana, in West Africa, and all the women in Ghana absolutely love shea butter. We use it for everything, head to toe. I've used it all my life.
~ Philomena Kwao
Under extremely powerful pressure peanut butter can be turned into diamonds.
~ Scott Matthews
Where I come from, we're more about efficiency,' he replies. 'A knife like this'll skewer food, smear butter, and slit throats all at the same time.
~ Marie Lu
Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.
~ Mark Twain
When Unguarded Thoughts Returned Over Breakfast --He needs to eat and so opens the fridge to retrieve along with bread a brick of butter. --[illegible], Paris. July 26, 1988
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
As I move along the line, other food items are plunked onto my tray: a small salad of iceberg lettuce and bacos, a slice of white bread with a pat of Hotel Holiday butter and blob of red Jell-O with fruit cocktail trapped inside. Instantly, I feel compassion for the trapped fruit.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Life isn't life without real butter.
~ A.D. Posey
It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you....Once the warm, salty butter has hit your tongue, you are smitten. Putty in their hands.
~ Nigel Slater
For much of the twentieth century, American visitors to Britain found that everything was the wrong temperature: cold, drafty rooms; warm beer and milk; rancid butter and sweating cheese.
~ Bee Wilson
they all offer me recipes for "cheap and easy eats" that usually involve a casserole made from canned soup, butter, and a snack chip.
~ Gillian Flynn
Life is too short not to have pasta, steak, and butter.
~ Iman
I love my husband's fried chicken, but I took it to the next level by swiping it with Cholula honey butter - I'm a total hot-sauce freak.
~ Chrissy Teigen
I'm a total protein shake junkie nerd. I get creative every morning - you never know what you're gonna get in my shake... fruit? Peanut butter? Ice-cream?
~ Christina Perri