George Augustus Henry Sala Quotes

You like pie? I like pie.

I can make cookies and do easy stuff. Pies are very specific and hard to do well though.

When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed.

Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries.

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

People all over the world are today questioning matters that only a few generations ago were generally seen as "just the way things are.”

My father's generation of Saudi men are more liberal than the men of my generation. But with women, it's the opposite.

I'm going to be a very bad Portuguese right now - I'm actually not a fan of pastel de natas. I'm just not a fan of cream.

Before the '80s, no girl would ask to click a photograph. That was modest and demure.

We are becoming a society where traditional values and free speech are being diminished and the religious are viewed as having a backward mentality.

I'm known for my desserts.

Our country's social revolution lends itself to jokes and I use them.

Pie can't compete with cake. Put candles in a cake, it's a birthday cake. Put candles in a pie, someone's drunk in the kitchen.

In industrial countries where male privilege is still firmly entrenched - in Spain, Italy, Japan, and South Korea, for example - women are delaying marriage longer than in America, and often resisting childbearing as well. They are less likely than American women to say that marriage is a good deal.

My mother's blueberry pie from scratch was amazing. I still make it today.

The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through.

The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.

Every new fad or fashion at once has its denouncers from the pulpit, platform, professor's chair.

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.

Pumpkin pie is a living symbol of mediocrity. The best pumpkin pie you ever ate wasn't all that much different from the worst pumpkin pie you ever ate.

We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.

It is quite easy to remark the absurdities and contradictions of a country's social system from outside its borders, but very difficult if one has been brought up in it.

I have been to this point unwilling to sign on to same-sex marriage primarily because of my understandings of the traditional definitions of marriage. But I also think you're right that attitudes evolve, including mine.

Another thing is, people lose perspective. It is a cultural trait in America to think in terms of very short time periods. My advice is: learn history. Take responsibility for history. Recognise that sometimes things take a long time to change. If you look at your history in this country, you find that for most rights, people had to struggle. People in this era forget that and quite often think they are entitled, and are weary of struggling over any period of time

Progressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live.