Crumpets Quotes

• Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The heavier the lashing of the rain and the ghastlier the details, the better the flavour seems to be.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Rain, Fire, Hot

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Strong Poison”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• You're a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don't come trying to teach me, sir. Crabs and crumpets!

  C. S. Lewis

  Remember You, Remembers You, Eggs

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.41, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• Thinking man's crumpet? Well, it's more flattering than being a lobotomised man's crumpet, I suppose.

  Gillian Anderson

  Men, Thinking, Flattering

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• Esos bollos goteantes, ahora puedo verlos. Pequeñas tostadas crujientes y bollos calientes y hojaldrados. Bocadillos de naturaleza desconocida, misteriosamente aromatizados y deliciosos, y ese pan de jengibre tan especial. Pastel de ángel, que se deshacía en la boca, y su compañero algo más pesado, repleto de cáscaras y pasas. Había comida suficiente para mantener a una familia hambrienta durante una semana.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Angel, Pastel, Especial

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• There was something immensely comforting, I found, about a crumpet - so comforting that I've never forgotten about them and have even learned to make them myself against those times when I have no other source of supply.

  Peg Bracken

  Food, Comforting, Forgotten

  Peg Bracken (1982). "Una ventana sobre el fregadero", Avon Books

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• Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain - which is to say, all of it. Every last bit of it, good and bad - old churches, country lanes, people saying 'Mustn't grumble,' and 'I'm terribly sorry but,' people apologizing to ME when I conk them with a careless elbow, milk in bottles, beans on toast, haymaking in June, seaside piers, Ordnance Survey maps, tea and crumpets, summer showers and foggy winter evenings - every bit of it.

  Bill Bryson

  Summer, Country, Sorry

  "Notes from a Small Island". Book by Bill Bryson, 1995.

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• United metropolitan improved hot muffin and crumpet baking and punctual delivery company.

  Charles Dickens

  Hot, Muffins, Baking

  'Nicholas Nickleby' (1839) ch. 2

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• A battle cry" Mr. Bennet said "is a warrior's calling card. Only it does not say 'Good afternoon. I have come for tea and crumpets.' It says 'Death has come for you! Flee or be killed where you stand!

  Steve Hockensmith

  Warrior, Mrs Bennet, Tea

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• I was hoping they would put up flyers like they do for lost cats." He said. "Missing, one stunningly attractive teenage boy. Answers to 'Jace' or 'hotstuff'." "You did not just say that." "You don't like 'hotstuff'? You think 'sweet cheeks' might be better? "Love crumpet'? Really? That last one's stretching it a bit. Though, technically my family is British-

  Cassandra Clare

  Sweet, Teenage, Cat

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