Pudding Quotes - Page 2

• British food is a celebration of comfort eating. Our traditional savoury recipes are all about warmth and sustenance, our puddings a roll call of sweet jollity, our cakes are deep and cosy. We appear to be a nation in need of a big, warm hug.

  Nigel Slater

  Sweet, Cake, Hug

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• My favorite pudding is good old English apple pie.

  Jeremy Bulloch

  Apples, Pie, My Favorite

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• I've been acting since second grade, telling stories, making my parents laugh here and there, so I'm hoping my "thing" is acting. But I also make a really good bread pudding.

  Anna Camp

  Bread Pudding, Laughing, Parent

  "Talking About Singing with Anna Camp". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. October 3, 2012.

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• And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.

  Ben Elton

  Signatures, Beef, Yorkshire

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• I love thee like puddings; if thou wert pie I'd eat thee.

  John Ray

  Love Is, Pie, Thee

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• I think the proof of the pudding is in the eating.

  Manmohan Singh

  Thinking, Eating, Proof

  "Dr Manmohan Singh's interview with Charlie Rose". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.rediff.com. March 1, 2006.

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• I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, my morning incense, and my evening meal, the sweets of hasty pudding.

  Joel Barlow

  Sweet, Morning, Meals

  1796 'The Hasty-Pudding', canto1

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• I remember eating in school in the years after the Second World War. Most of my friends had miserable portions of Spam with an inedible, glutinous pudding served in containers we called 'coffins.' As a vegetarian, I had a lump of loathsome cheese and some bread.

  Robert Winston

  War, School, Years

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• As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.

  George Orwell

  Food, Oil, Cooking

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

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• When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd?

  Tom Stoppard

  Thinking, Together Again, Doe

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Arcadia”, p.12, Faber & Faber

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• The first bowl of chocolate pudding was too hot, but Goldilocks ate it all anyway because, hey, it's chocolate pudding, right?

  Mo Willems

  Chocolate, Hot, Hey

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• Even though I don't ask, Plutarch gives me cheerful updates on the phone like "Good news, Katniss! I think we've almost got him convinced you're not a mutt!" Or "Today he was allowed to feed himself pudding!

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Phones, Katniss

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• ... when the Spaniards persecuted heretics they may have been crude, but they were not being unreasonable or unpractical. They were at least wiser than the people of to-day who pretend that it does not matter what a man believes, as who should say that the flavour and digestibility of a pudding will have nothing to do with its ingredients.

  Rebecca West

  Believe, Men, Ideas

  Rebecca West (1928). “The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West”

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• I am not an encore, not a pudding, I am the main dish.

  Joseph Roth

  Dishes, Encores

  Joseph Roth (2012). “Joseph Roth”, p.39, Granta Books

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• I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat.

  Charles Dickens

  Couple, Men, Hands

  M. R. James, Arthur Conan Doyle, Saki, Sabine Baring-Gould, Thomas Hardy (2017). “Spooky Christmas: 30+ Supernatural & Eerie Tales: Ghost Stories, Horror Tales & Legends: The Silver Hatchet, Wolverden Tower, The Wolves of Cernogratz, The Box with the Iron Clamps, The Grave by the Handpost, The Ghost’s Touch…”, p.285, e-artnow

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• Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding.

  Charles Dickens

  Food, Doors, Smell

  Charles Dickens (2011). “A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories”, p.54, Penguin

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• There sure are a lot of these 'instant' products on the market. Instant coffee, instant tea, instant pudding, instant cereal... instant dislike.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Coffee, Cereal, Tea

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• The only real difference between me and chocolate pudding is that I am not a black man.

  Thom Yorke

  Real, Men, Differences

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• Look, when you are starting to put something together, you want the pudding to come out good. You're trying to put in the right ingredients.

  Bill Parcells

  Motivational, Sports, Trying

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• My weakness is sweets. I like bread pudding and cheesecake in particular.

  Vivek Murthy

  Sweet, Bread Pudding, Weakness

  "Not My Job: Surgeon General Vivek Murthy Gets Quizzed On 'General Hospital'". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. July 25, 2015.

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• If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.

  George Eliot

  Food, Thinking, Cooking

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.292

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• The authority of example and considerations of character, unlike pudding, are not whipped up in an instant.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Character, Example, Consideration

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• As with many other things, there is a surprising amount of prejudice against quality control, but the proof of the pudding is still in the eating.

  Kaoru Ishikawa

  Quality, Prejudice, Eating

  Kaoru Ishikawa (1990). “Introduction to Quality Control”, Productivity Press

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• I rather be divisive than boring. The last thing I want to be is a bowl of sugar free vanilla pudding, it's not something you necessarily hate but it's not something you ask for. I'd rather be something people passionately care about one way or another than be kind of in the middle.

  Andy Biersack

  Hate, People, Care

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• I loathe people who say, 'I always read the ending of the book first.' That really irritates me, It's like someone coming to dinner, just opening the fridge and eating pudding, while you're standing there still working on the starter. It's not on.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, People, Dinner

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