The glittering structure of her cultivation sits on her novels like a rather showy icing that detracts from the cake beneath.

-Auchincloss, Louis Stanton
  Of Edith Wharton. Pioneers and Caretakers:  A Study of Nine American Women Novelists.

You can have yourcake and eat it: the only trouble is you get fat.

-Barnes,Julian Patrick
  Flaubert's Parrot, ch.7.

There is onlya certain sized cake to be divided up, and if a lot of people want a larger slice they can only take it from others who would, in terms of real income, have a smaller one.

-Cripps, Sir (Richard) Stafford
  Speech, Trades Union Congress,7 Sep.

   [Plays that would] cut through time like a knife through a layer cake or a road through a mountain revealing its geologic layers.

-Miller, Arthur
  Describing the plays he always wished to write. Timebends:  A Life.