King Cakes

Famous quotes containing the words king and/or cakes:

    “I don’t wish to give offense when I suggest that this country should select a king, or even a queen, rather than a president. One isn’t that quick to shoot a king or a queen—the majesty of royalty, you see.”
    —David Webb Peoples, screenwriter. English Bob (Richard Harris)

    “A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)