These cake quotes will inspire you. The cake is a form of sweet food made from flour, sugar, and other ingredients, that is usually baked.
In their oldest forms, cakes were modifications of bread, but cakes now cover a wide range of preparations that can be simple or elaborate, and that share features with other desserts such as pastries, meringues, custards, and pies.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging cake quotes, cake sayings, and cake proverbs.
Best Cake Quotes
- “A party without cake is really just a meeting.” ~ Julia Child
- “Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.” ~ Dean Koontz
- “There’s nothing better than cake but more cake.” ~ Harry S. Truman
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“Let’s face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.” ~ Audrey Hepburn
- “Remember, no matter what life throws at us, we can always bake a cake!” ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
- “Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It’s all about the memories.” ~ Buddy Valastro , Birthday cake quotes
- “Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it.” ~ E. Lockhart
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“The icing on the cake is when other people enjoy your vision and support what you do.” ~ Cise Star
- “Romance is the icing but love is the cake.” ~ Julia Child
- “Love love and cherish life. Also, just eat the cake.” ~ Aaron Paul
- “Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.” ~ Jim Davis
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“Where there’s cake, there’s hope. And there’s always cake.” ~ Dean Koontz
- “I like birthdays. Every time someone is born, that’s just like bringing more cake into the world.” ~ Demetri Martin
- “At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can’t eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab two, a piece in each hand, and, lo and behold, you will be on a balanced diet! Happy birthday, old chum!” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “Photographing a cake can be art.” ~ Irving Penn
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“My policy on cake is pro having it and pro-eating it.” ~ Boris Johnson
- “A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.” ~ Alfred Hitchcock
- “For me, almost always, the answer was cake.” ~ Diana Abu-Jaber
- “For goodness sake, look at those cakes.” ~ James Brown
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“I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn’t have one. So I got a cake.” ~ Mitch Hedberg
- “Let them eat cake.” ~ Marie Antoinette
- “If you look over the years, the styles have changed – the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it’s really the same.” ~ John Oates
- “A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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“I want to be the girl with the most cake.” ~ Courtney Love
- “If the cake fits, eat it!” ~ Gordon Korman
- “When someone asks if you’d like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?” ~ Lisa Loeb
- “Happiness is like a cake: have too much of it and you get sick of it.” ~ Karl Pilkington
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“The real cake isn’t HAVING what you want, it’s DOING what you want” ~ Lady Gaga
- “Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it’s easy.” ~ Nigella Lawson
- “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.” ~ Jim Gaffigan
- “May I feel like I feel when I’m about to eat cake.” ~ Greg Walloch
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“All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.” ~ George Harrison
- “You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.” ~ Bob Hope
- “Destiny cuts the cake of love, Three slices to some, To others, a crumb.” ~ Stefano Benni
- “If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.” ~ Marie Antoinette
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“The only way cheese is dessert is when it’s followed by the word cake.” ~ Michele Gorman
- “Koolaid is goyish. All Drake’s Cakes are goyish. Pumpernickel is Jewish, and, as you know, white bread is very goyish. Instant potatoes – goyish. Black cherry soda’s very Jewish. Macaroons are very Jewish – very Jewish cake. Fruit salad is Jewish. Lime Jell-O is goyish. Lime soda is very goyish. Trailer parks are so goyish that Jews won’t go near them.” ~ Lenny Bruce
- “I will go anywhere if you say the phrase ‘there might be cake.’ I would go to the Department of Motor Vehicles, register somebody else’s boat in Spanish, a language I do not speak, without ID – for cake.” ~ Greg Behrendt
- “I drink diet coke so I can eat regular cake.” ~ Gabriel Iglesias
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“Life’s no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe’s my own to fool with.” ~ Haruki Murakami
- “I ask you, what is the use of having your “cake” if you can’t eat it? What exactly are you supposed to do with it? Put it on your mantel and look at it? Cake is meant to be eaten and enjoyed.” ~ T. Harv Eker
- “Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It’s more like a heap of stones – a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That’s how I see it.” ~ Maeve Binchy
- “The less Holy Spirit we have, the more cake and coffee we need to keep the church going.” ~ Reinhard Bonnke
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“You cannot have a cake and eat it too. Either you eat it, or you have it.” ~ Zygmunt Bauman
- “We get a lot of overseas people wanting to order cakes.” ~ Jane Asher
- “I’d choose truth over cake but I’d try to find a way to get both to be honest.” ~ Craig Benzine
- “Everyone is dealing with something. This is life; this is not just a piece of cake.” ~ Tom Brady
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“If life was a piece of cake, it wouldn’t be worth eating!” ~ Christopher Jones
- “You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.” ~ Miguel de Cervantes
- “All over the world people have developed their own ideas about what’s right and wrong in life, but so long as you aren’t harming others or the Earth, it’s your choice when you decide how you want to live your life – Yours and yours alone. Life’s no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe’s my own to fool with.” ~ Haruki Murakami
- “Cupcakes – when you want to watch your weight, but still feel the pride that comes with eating an entire cake.” ~ Dana Gould
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“I am not strict vegan, because I’m a hedonist pig. If I see a big chocolate cake that is made with eggs, I’ll have it.” ~ Grace Slick
- “Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Sunshine Cake is just a fun hobby thing. That’s about it.” ~ Krist Novoselic
- “I like to serve chocolate cake because it doesn’t show the dirt.” ~ Phyllis Diller
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“We’ll take the cake with the red cherry on top.” ~ Navjot Singh Sidhu
- “Music’s been around a long time, and there’s going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it’s a big record, that’s the frosting on the cake, but music’s the main meal.” ~ Ray Charles
- “A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it’s not your fault – you need to have your oven checked.” ~ Delia Smith
- “It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.” ~ Richard M. Nixon
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“Let’s make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake – you know, to send the right message to kids.” ~ Bill Maher
- “Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.” ~ Lady Gaga
- “You don’t want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake.” ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
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“I only came for Cake” -Tobias Eaton
- “Have your fun, my dear; but if you must earn your bread, try to make it sweet with cheerfulness, not bitter with the daily regret that it isn’t cake.” ~ Louisa May Alcott
- “Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake.” ~ Larry Hagman