50 Butter Quotes Proving It Makes Everything Better

By Clifton Sankofa | Published July 9, 2023

Get all buttered up with our tasty butter quotes.

Butter is an essential part of various cuisines across the globe.

Why do people love butter so much?

Find out why with our butter quotes below.

What is butter?

Butter is the fat made from churning the cream of milk.

Many people make butter from cow’s milk, but others prefer goat butter.

Check out these interesting butter facts below:

Frozen butter can last up to one year.
Butter is the preferred fat to use for cooks across the world.
Indian, the United States, New Zealand, and the European Union are the world’s top butter producers.

What is the best way to use butter?

Butter develops a delicious salty, nutty flavor that caramelizes on food when heated.

It best compliments foods sauteed in a pan, adding extraordinary complexity to sauces.

Butter is essential to the texture and flavor of many baked goods.

Butter can be used in many ways.

People use it in slices or tablespoons for dips, frying, and other uses.

Whipped butter is another favorite that people add to their toast, pancakes, and waffles.

Are butter and margarine the same thing?

Absolutely not!
Butter purists would be offended if you compared butter to margarine.

Margarine is a butter alternative that people use because it has less cholesterol.

The downside is that margarine contains more monosaturated fats.

While the taste is close, margarine does not cook as well as butter does.

Butter adds flavor, texture, and richness to dishes.

Margarine creates flatter flavors since it breaks down while cooking.

What is the best way to store butter?

Butter hardens when cold, so some people argue about the best way to store it.

Most people prefer butter at room temperature so that it easily spreads.

However, leaving your butter out at room temperature significantly decreases its shelf life.

Butter can be refrigerated for weeks or can be frozen for up to a year.

To learn more, check out our butter quotes below.

Short butter quotes about flavor

These butter quotes are short and deliciously sweet.

1. “Unsalted butter is a sin against the Holy Ghost.” — Jacob Rees-Mogg

2. “I don’t even butter my bread. I consider that cooking.” — Katherine Cebrian

3. “Eat butter first, and eat it last, and live till a hundred years be past.” — Dutch Proverb

4. “Honest bread is very well – it’s the butter that makes the temptation.” — Douglas Jerrold

5. “Butter is the great staple article for breakfast & tea among all classes.” — John Pintard

6. “Men are my bread and butter. It’s what I live for! I have no shame about that.” — Fiona Apple

7. “If you’re afraid of butter, as many people are nowadays, just put in cream!” — Julia Child

8. “It took me years to figure out that you don’t fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.” — Claudette Colbert

9. “Bread and butter, devoid of charm in the drawing room, is ambrosia eating under a tree.” — Elizabeth Russel

10. “Bread, milk, and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.” — Leigh Hunt

The best butter quotes for butter lovers

The quotes remind us how versatile butter is.

11. “Never allow butter, soup, or other food to remain on your whiskers. Use the napkin frequently.” — Hill’s Manual of Social and Business Forms

12. “I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back.” — Edward Lear

13. “Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.” — James Beard

14. “Unbuttered toast is a substance half complete, and to be forced to eat it in that state is necessarily to feel deprived.” — John Thorne, Pot on the Fire

15. “The idea of restraining children from a liberal use of good fresh butter is exploded, & they almost live upon bread & butter in this city.” — John Pintard

16. “The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a lumber yard.” — Charles Dickens

Butter quotes for every butter-lover

Here are a variety of quotes about the popular ingredient.

17. “Butter is the most delicate of foods among barbarous nations, and one which distinguishes the wealthy from the multitude at large.” — Pliny

18. “My dear boy, when curds are churned, the finest part rises upward and turns into butter. So too, dear boy, when food is eaten, the choice parts rise upward and become mind.” — Chandogya Upanishad

19. “There was an old person of Prague, who was suddenly seized with the plague; But they gave him some butter, which caused him to mutter, and cured that old person of Prague.” — Edward Lear

20. “During the day-time, Violet chiefly occupied herself in putting salt-water into a churn, while her three brothers churned it violently, in the hope that it would turn into butter, which it seldom, if ever, did.” — Edward Lear, The Story of Four Little Children Who Went Round the World

The top butter quotes for giving flavor to food and life

These quotes remind us that everyone loves butter!

21. “I love having an unlimited supply of cocoa butter.” — DJ Khaled

22. “If you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it’s hard to beat bread and butter.” — Jacques Pepin

23. “I put cocoa butter all over my face and my iconic belly and my arms and legs. Why live rough? Live smooth.” — DJ Khaled

24. “Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that’s crazy.” — Ice Cube

25. “I will never use a substitute for butter. Margarine is one molecule away from eating plastic. If I’m going to eat that type of food, it’s going to be the real deal.” — Paula Deen

26. “Everything tastes better with butter. Meat that has fat in it is tender in a certain way, flavorful in a certain way. It’s hard to deny the flavor quotient there.” — Alice Waters

27. “Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.” — William O. Douglas

28. “I like to get one pair of shoes and wear them till they’re dirty. Besides, I don’t walk – I glide, like butter. ” — Kid Cudi

29. “There is nothing I like better than going home and cooking my family a nice meal. Anything with pasta! Pasta with butter!” — Eden Hazard

30. “Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don’t realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.” — Jack LaLanne

Butter quotes about butter’s delicious cousin, peanut butter

31. “I make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich.” — Jack Black

22. “Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.” — Charles M. Schulz

33. “If you can’t control your peanut butter, you can’t expect to control your life.” — Bill Watterson

34. “Before they had crunchy peanut butter, I would put peanuts in the creamy peanut butter.” — Jim Harbaugh

35. “I actually put peanut butter on my bagel. I really like peanut butter, and I like to ruin the bagel.” — Evan Peters

36. “There’s nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.” — Billy Joel

37. “If you don’t mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.” — Barry Goldwater

38. “You know what’s even crazier that I do sometimes? I do cinnamon raisin bagels with peanut butter. It is really, really out there.” — Evan Peters

39. “I feel better all day if I start off by eating healthy. Breakfast is simple: multigrain toast with natural peanut butter, oatmeal, yogurt, fruit, or healthy cereal.” — Natalie Morales

40. “I like to use ‘I Can’t Believe it’s Not Butter’ on my toast in the morning because sometimes when I eat breakfast, I like to be incredulous. How was breakfast? Unbelievable.” — Demetri Martin

Famous butter quotes to live by

Check out these butter quotes for more buttery inspiration.

41. “A true yogi may remain dutifully in the world; there, he is like butter on water and not like the easily-diluted milk of unchurned and undisciplined humanity.” — Paramahansa Yogananda

42. “She looked as if butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth or anywhere else. Elsa Lanchester Coaching the Bruins is like going bear hunting with a butter knife.” — Pat Burns

43. “Fresh egg pasta is traditionally served in the north of Italy with butter, cream and rich meat sauces, whereas dried pasta is more at home with the tomato- and olive oil-based ones of the south.” — Yotam Ottolenghi

44. “Nothing like mashed potatoes when you’re feeling blue. Nothing like getting into bed with a bowl of hot mashed potatoes already loaded with butter, and methodically adding a thin, cold slice of butter to every forkful.” — Nora Ephron

45. “I’m brilliant at cooking my stepmother’s scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached.” — Ian Mckellen

Additional butter quotes

Enjoy these final quotes about butter and why we like it so much.

46. “In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, and there was no talk about fat and anything like that, and butter and cream were rife.” — Julia Child

47. “I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic – you start off with all this disparate stuff, such as butter and eggs, and what you end up with is so totally different. And also delicious.” — Marian Keyes

48. “My all-time favorite is my mother’s butter cake. Every time I go home, my mom will already have the cake made because I love it so much.” — Michael Strahan

49. “To make a full-blooded puff pastry, you need time, you need patience, and you need precision. It’s all about the lamination: it’s all about building up the layers of butter, dough, butter, dough; as the butter melts, it creates steam, and that brings up the layers of the two doughs apart from each other, and that’s what gives it the rise.” — Paul Hollywood

50. “A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, ‘Daddy, I need to ask you something,’ he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.” — Garrison Keillor