You can't "have" your pudding unless you can "eat" it.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

There—with mechanics working at their trades, and people leaning from their doors and windows, and boys flying kites and playing marbles, and men smoking, and women talking, and children crawling, and pigs burrowing, and unaccustomed horses plunging and rearing, close to the very rails—there—on, on, on—tears the mad dragon of an engine with its train of cars; scattering in all directions a shower of burning sparks from its wood fire; screeching, hissing, yelling, panting; until at last the thirsty monster stops beneath a covered way to drink, the people cluster round, and you have time to breathe again.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

Besides, where have you picked up the notion that I am ill?
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

yet now that you see that God’s Hand hath reached you, and brought you to publick Justice, I hope your present unhappy Circumstances hath made you seriously reflect upon your past Actions and Course of Life; and that you are now sensible of the Greatness of your Sins, and that you find the Burden of them is intolerable.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Nay, I must have you promise Upon your honours, for I was enjoin'd to 't
— from The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

“Well, Mr. Holmes, have you proved us to be wrong yet?
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

I hope you picked up your coin?
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

“I break the Tenth Commandment, Moodie, whenever I hear you play upon that flute.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Why think particularly of the King of Prussia, a man whom, with the same breath that you exalt him, you put under three subjects, [20] and take at the same time his army into your own hands, to keep him from doing harm?
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various

If you had heard your poor uncle relate, as I have done, all his chasings and runnings away, in the war times, child, you would understand these things better.
— from Jack Tier; Or, The Florida Reef by James Fenimore Cooper

In those wild notes, which, with a merry heart, The birds in unfrequented shades express, Who, better taught at home, yet please us less; So in your verse a native sweetness dwells, Which shames composure, [2] and its art excells.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 11 by John Dryden

"Well," the Captain exclaimed, who had followed this long story with ever increasing interest; "and what information have you picked up?"
— from Stronghand; or, The Noble Revenge by Gustave Aimard

"I wonder, Marigold," said I, "how you put up with me.
— from The Red Planet by William John Locke

"I don't see how you put up with him!" said Miriam.
— from The Substitute Millionaire by Hulbert Footner

Then the first period, of nine hundred years, presents us with the most interesting spectacle of a people struggling out of anarchy into order and power; and then governed, for the most part, by the worthiest and noblest man whom they could find among them,
— from Stones of Venice [introductions] by John Ruskin

"I've heard you pounding up here for some time, and hoped you'd settle down so as not to disturb the others.
— from Ward Hill, the Senior by Everett T. (Everett Titsworth) Tomlinson

Had you picked up a crew of fishers?"
— from A Sea Queen's Sailing by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

"But we can't be havin' you pay un," remonstrated Richard.
— from The Gaunt Gray Wolf: A Tale of Adventure With Ungava Bob by Dillon Wallace