Tarts Quotes

• The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts,
  All on a summer day:
  The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts,
  And took them quite away!

  Lewis Carroll

  Summer, Queens, Heart

  1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ch.11,'Who Stole the Tarts?'.

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• P.S. May, don’t these strawberry tarts just make you want to cry?

  Kiera Cass

  May, Want, Cry

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• Tart, cathartic virtue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Virtue, Cathartic

  On Plutarch's Lives, in 'Essays' (1841) 'Heroism'

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• A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.

  James Beard

  Drinking, Food, Thinking

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• A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

  Washington Irving

  Birthday, Anger, Age

  The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon "Rip Van Winkle" (1819 - 1820)

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• He called me a pie!” she announced, defensively. There was a pause. “Wait. That’s not right.” “A tart?” “Yes! That’s it!

  Sarah MacLean

  Pie, Waiting, Pauses

  Sarah MacLean (2011). “Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• The poison dart hidden in the raisin tart.

  Christopher Paolini

  Poison, Raisins

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1003, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Unless you are a professional, you will find the tart to be a high-maintenance, unforgiving whistle-blower of a pastry.

  Sloane Crosley

  Maintenance, Pastries, Unforgiving

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• I didn't think of myself as a tart, but I wouldn't argue with anyone who did

  Julian Clary

  Thinking, Arguing

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• O, blackberry tart, with berries as big as your thumb, purple and black, and thick with juice, and a crust to endear them that will go to cream in your mouth, and both passing down with such a taste that will make you close your eyes and wish you might live forever in the wideness of that rich moment.

  Richard Llewellyn

  Eye, Purple, Forever

  Richard Llewellyn (2009). “How Green Was My Valley”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• spring is super in the supermarkets and the strawberries prance and glow never mind that they're all kinda tart and tasteless as strawberries go meanwhile wild things are not for sale anymore than they are for show so i'll be outside, in love with the kind of beauty it takes more than eyes to know

  Ani DiFranco

  Spring, Eye, Mind

  Song: Half-Assed, Album: Reprieve, 2006

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• I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

  Harold MacMillan

  Government, Two, Determined

  Comment on the Profumo affair, July 1963, in Anthony Sampson 'Macmillan' (1967) p. 243

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• I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder.

  Ernest Dowson

  Absinthe, Grows

  Ernest Christopher Dowson, Desmond Flower, Henry Maas (1968). “The Letters of Ernest Dowson”, p.35, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting.

  Washington Irving

  Wine, Oil, Ingredients

  Washington Irving (2006). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book”, p.178, Penguin

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• The innocence of virgins is like milk which turns when exposed to a clap of thunder, to a tart smell, to a hot day, to the merest nothing.

  Honore de Balzac

  Smell, Hot, Milk

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• Many traffic signs have become like placebos, giving false comfort to the afflicted, or simple boilerplate to ward off lawsuits, the roadway version of the Kellogg’s Pop-Tarts box that says, “Warning: Pastry Filling May Be Hot When Heated.

  Tom Vanderbilt

  Simple, Giving, Comfort

  Tom Vanderbilt (2008). “Traffic”, p.187, Vintage

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• Don't think of Diana Vreeland's memoir as a book; it's more like a lunch. A bit of souffle, a glass of champagne, some green grapes - light, bubbly and slightly tart - all served up by an egocentric but inventive hostess.

  Cathleen McGuigan

  Book, Thinking, Lunch

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• The Queen of Crafts herself, Martha Stewart, and I have the same birthday. I prefer to think it's the glue-gun wielding, perfect-tart-producing Martha and not the copper pan-throwing, jail-going Martha. But I suppose if I am going to share a calendar square with some of Martha, I have to share it with all of Martha.

  Sloane Crosley

  Birthday, Queens, Gun

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• Sam loved to listen to music and make his own songs, to wear soft velvets, to play in the castle kitchen beside the cooks, drinking in the rich smells as he snitched lemon cakes and blueberry tarts. His passions were books and kittens and dancing, clumsy as he was.

  George R. R. Martin

  Song, Drinking, Book

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.232, Bantam

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• I don't want to be modelling G-strings. It's not that good for my image – I'm a footballer not a tart

  Michael Owen

  Want, Strings, Footballer

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• The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, all on a hot summer's day. The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts. The mad Queen said, "Off with his head! Off with his head! Off with his head!" Well... that's too bad... no more heads to cut.

  Jun Mochizuki

  Summer, Queens, Heart

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• Acting is the best job in the world. Look at the way they treat you when you turn up for work. They give you breakfast and a cup of tea and ask, 'Are you all right' They tart up your face, you say somebody else's words, then pick up your check and go home. And you get days off. I tell you, it really is the way to live.

  Bob Hoskins

  Jobs, Home, Best Job

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• I think that you've got to be prepared to write a load of nonsense to start with and then you can tart it up. The business of getting going, getting started, is enormously important, and this can be physical. Solvitur Ambulando as the Romans used to say, which means the solution comes through walking.

  Colin Dexter

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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• Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.

  Beverley Baxter

  Government, Towns, Married

  In Sir Henry Channon Chips: the Diaries (1967) 12 June 1940

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• I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.

  Hugh Grant

  Valentines Day, Laughing, Secret

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