King Cakes

Famous quotes containing the words king and/or cakes:

    “Of an old King in a story
    From the grey sea-folk I have heard,
    Whose heart was no more broken
    Than the wings of a bird.”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

    “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)