King Cakes

Famous quotes containing the words king and/or cakes:

    So doth the greater glory dim the less:
    A substitute shines brightly as a king
    Until a king be by.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    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)