Scones Quotes:

What's going on?" I sat down on the bed and finished the last of the scone. "Bad things," she said mischievously. "You'll approve.

- Richelle Mead

source: Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.257, Penguin

topic: Bed, Lasts, Scones

A basket of freshly baked pastries like scones make breakfast easy for your host the next day.

- Clinton Kelly

topic: Next Day, Breakfast, Host, Pastries, Scones

I worship scones and danishes. If I never had another meal, I wouldn't care as long as I could eat pastries and jelly doughnuts.

- Gene Simmons

topic: Long, Meals, Jelly, Pastries, Doughnut

In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.

- Jodi Picoult

source: "Nineteen Minutes". Book by Jodi Picoult, March 6, 2007.

topic: Hockey, Hair, Color, Folds, Scones

Those dripping crumpets, I can see them now. Tiny crisp wedges of toast, and piping-hot, flaky scones. Sandwiches of unknown nature, mysteriously flavoured and quite delectable, and that very special gingerbread. Angel cake, that melted in the mouth, and his rather stodgier companion, bursting with peel and raisins. There was enough food there to keep a starving family for a week.

- Daphne du Maurier

topic: Angel, Cake, Special, Raisins, Delectable

Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop.

- Andrew Rannells

source: "Andrew Rannells ‘Book of Mormon’ Star Talks Life, White Strips & Mucinex". Interview with Sandi Durell, theaterpizzazz.com. July 17, 2013.

topic: Moving, Towns, Poor, Scones

America's new tea lovers are the people who have forced the tea trade to wake up. Elsewhere, tea has meant a certain way, a certain tradition, for centuries, but this is America! The American tea lover is heir to all the world's tea drinking traditions, from Japanese tea ceremonies to Russian samovars to English scones in the afternoon. India chai, China green, you name it and we can claim it and make it ours. And that's just what we are doing. In this respect, ours is the most innovative and exciting tea scene anywhere.

- James Norwood Pratt

topic: Drinking, Names, America, Chai, Tea Ceremony

Why shouldn't it be that way for the rest of us? Why not just go with it? Just walk the dog and send the tweets and eat the scones and play with the hamsters and ride the bicycles and watch the sunsets and stream the movies and never worry about any of it? I didn't know it could be that easy. I didn't know that until just now. That sounds good to me.

- Joshua Ferris

topic: Dog, Sunset, Play, Hamsters, Scones

On the wall next to the table, next to the scones that provided each table with its own circle of lamplight were quotations about reading, her favorite of which was from Kafka: 'A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

- Haven Kimmel

source: Haven Kimmel (2002). “The Solace of Leaving Early: A Novel”, p.127, Anchor

topic: Wall, Reading, Book, Scones

Nicely done, brother," said Gabriel from the bed, blinking sleepy green eyes at Gideon. Gideon threw a scone at him.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2015). “Clockwork Princess”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

topic: Brother, Eye, Bed, Gabriel Lightwood, Gideon Lightwood

Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.' 'I was at Scone College, Oxford, for two years,' said Paul.

- Evelyn Waugh

source: evelyn waugh (1929). “decline and fall”

topic: Home, College, Years, Scones

Sophie," he said, and when she gave him a stern look, he took a hasty swig of the posset. “Miss Collins. I have not yet had a chance to properly apologize to you, so let me take it now. Please forgive me for the trick I played on you with the scones. I did not mean to show you disrespect. I hope you do not imagine I think any less of you for your position in the household, for you are one of the finest and bravest ladies I have ever had the pleasure of knowing.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

topic: Mean, Thinking, Knowing, Please Forgive Me, Gideon Lightwood