Bread And Butter Quotes

Bread And Butter Quotes by Jonathan Swift, Marisha Pessl, Rita Dove, James Beard, Ice Cube, Oscar Wilde and many others.

I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.

I won’t quarrel with my bread and butter.
Jonathan Swift
Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and Russians, sadly have very little staying power in these lickety-split Modern Times.
Marisha Pessl
My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.
Rita Dove
Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.
James Beard
Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that’s crazy.
Ice Cube
You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.
Oscar Wilde
About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
Manolo Blahnik
All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
Joseph Addison
I never was much of an oyster eater, nor can I relish them ‘in naturalibus’ as some do, but require a quantity of sauces, lemons, cayenne peppers, bread and butter, and so forth, to render them palatable.
William Makepeace Thackeray
I never thrust my nose into other men’s porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.
Miguel de Cervantes
I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
J. R. R. Tolkien
I still do live concerts all over the country – about four a month – with singing and characters and improv. It keeps me limber. I’ll never lose that. And comedy is still the bread and butter.
Martin Short
The matter of fees is important, far beyond the mere question of bread and butter involved. Properly attended to, fuller justice is done to both lawyer and client.
Abraham Lincoln
Give us this day our daily mask.
Tom Stoppard
If you work for a man, in Heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply your bread and butter, work for him, stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents.
Elbert Hubbard
When not writing and directing, my bread and butter comes from acting and stunt work. I’ve been fortunate enough to be part of some amazing productions.
Mike Mayhall
Playing show after show is like my bread and butter.
Ani DiFranco