Butter Quotes
“Butter is the great staple article for breakfast & tea among all classes. The idea of restraining children from a liberal use of good fresh butter is exploded, & they almost live upon bread & butter in this city.”
John Pintard (1759-1844) writing from New York to his daughter in New Orleans.
"Eat butter first, and eat it last, and live till a hundred years be past."
Old Dutch proverb
Butter is "...the most delicate of foods among barbarous nations, and one which distinguishes the wealthy from the multitude at large."
Pliny
“Unbuttered toast is a substance half complete, and to be forced to eat it in that state is necessarily to feel deprived.”
John Thorne, 'Pot on the Fire' (2000)
“I don't even butter my bread. I consider that cooking.”
Katherine Cebrian, Artist, writer
"Honest bread is very well - it's the butter that makes the temptanion."
Douglas Jerrold (1803-1857)
“Bread and butter, devoid of charm in the drawing room, is ambrosia eating under a tree.”
Elizabeth Russell (Mary Annette Russell, Countess von Arnim) (1866-1941) English novelist
“Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.”
James Beard (1903-1985)
“My dear boy, when curds are churned, the finest part rises upward and turns into butter. So too, dear boy, when food is eaten the choice parts rise upward and become mind.”
Chandogya Upanishad
(Choice Cuts by Mark Kurlansky, 2002)
“The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a lumber yard.”
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
“Never allow butter, soup or other food to remain on your whiskers. Use the napkin frequently.”
Hill's Manual of Social and Business Forms: Etiquette of the Table (1880)
“Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.”
Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), 'The Seer'
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