Toffee Quotes

• A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Zest, Chocolate

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.446, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, isn't it splendid & rather toffee?

  Stephen Fry

  Life, Splendid, Wells

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• So there I was lying in the gutter. A man stopped and asked '"What's the matter? Did you fall over?" So I said "No. I've a bar of toffee in my back pocket and I was just trying to break it."

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Lying, Fall

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• A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Never Quit, Taste

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.446, Simon and Schuster

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• Coraline opened the box of chocolates. The dog looked at them longingly. "Would you like one?" she asked the little dog. "Yes, please," whispered the dog. "Only not toffee ones. They make me drool." "I thought chocolates weren't very good for dogs," she said, remembering something Miss Forcible had once told her. "Maybe where you come from," whispered the little dog. "Here, it's all we eat.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dog, Missing, Chocolate

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• Ah! Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans! I was unfortunate enough in my youth to come across a vomit-flavored one, and since then I’m afraid I’ve rather lost my liking for them — but I think I’ll be safe with a nice toffee, don’t you?” He smiled and popped the golden-brown bean into his mouth. “Alas! Ear wax!

  J. K. Rowling

  Nice, Thinking, Ears

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• Watching the Commons tribute to Margaret Thatcher was like being suffocated inside a gigantic sticky toffee pudding, but one with nasty bogeys planted inside. There was much of the 'Margaret Thatcher who was lucky enough to know me,' especially from her own side of the House.

  Simon Hoggart

  House, Lucky, Sides

  "Lady Thatcher tribute: MPs serve up a gigantic sticky toffee pudding" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2013.

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• I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling -- until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My soul. My self.

  John Banville

  Self, Soul, Layers

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• Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had given him a dexterity of jaw that was truly awesome. He somersaulted happily around the floor, making faces like a rubber gargoyle in a washing machine.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dog, Trying, Faces

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Making Money: (Discworld Novel 36)”, p.141, Random House

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• It was as though they had been plunged into a fabulous dream. This, thought Harry, was surely the only way to travel - past swirls and turrets of snowy cloud, in a car full of hot, bright sunlight, with a fat pack of toffees in the glove compartment.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dream, Past, Clouds

  J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books

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• Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in with a soda water. He placed it next to the bag of toffees. Then he watched me read. I was used to being observed reading. Sometimes the room would fill like a railway station at rush hour and I would be expected to cure widespread boredom

  Tahir Shah

  Reading, Doors, Water

  FaceBook post by Tahir Shah from Apr 17, 2013

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• The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder. Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk around my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver. I was in such bliss, my brothers.

  Anthony Burgess

  Wise, Brother, Wine

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• I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guitar lessons... My teacher was obviously bored giving me lessons, and one day I offered him a liquorice toffee, but he didn't answer. So I threw it at him, it hit him in the face, and he sort of beat me up.

  Simon Cowell

  Teacher, Guitar, Giving

  "This Briton's got talent". Interview with David Walliams, www.independent.co.uk. March 23, 2012.

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• From this height the sleeping city seems like a child's construction, a model which has refused to be constrained by imagination. The volcanic plug might be black Plasticine, the castle balanced solidly atop it a skewed rendition of crenellated building bricks. The orange street lamps are crumpled toffee-wrappers glued to lollipop sticks.

  Ian Rankin

  Children, Sleep, Cities

  Ian Rankin (2010). “Dead Souls: An Inspector Rebus Novel”, p.3, Macmillan

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• Hedwig didn't return until the end of the Easter holidays. Percy's letter was enclosed in a package of Easter eggs that Mrs. Weasley had sent. Both Harry's and Ron's were the size of dragon eggs, and full of home-made toffee. Hermione's, however, was smaller than a chicken's egg. Her face fell when she saw it. "Your mum doesn't read Witch's Weekly, by any chance, does she, Ron?" she asked quietly. "Yeah," said Ron, whose mouth was full of toffee. "Gets it for the recipes." Hermione looked sadly at her tiny egg.

  J. K. Rowling

  Easter, Home, Holiday

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• Someone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Hate, Blood, Acting

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