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• I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.

  Boy George

  Sex, Cups Of Tea, Cups

  "Are you sure? The 12 things that celebrities have claimed are 'better than sex'" by Rod McPhee, www.mirror.co.uk. October 26, 2013.

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• Drama's not safe and it's not pretty and it's not kind. People expect the basic template of television drama where there might be naughty villains, but everyone ends up having a nice cup of tea. You've got to do big moral choices and show the terrible things people do in terrible situations. Drama is failing if it doesn't do that.

  Russell T Davies

  Nice, Drama, Naughty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957.

  Tom Holt

  Perfect, Style, Lasts

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• Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was. "Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked.

  Douglas Adams

  Missing, Important, Arthur

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.79, Pan Macmillan

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• Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time.

  Lewis Carroll

  Wonderland, Said, Sigh

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.44

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• Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -- the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Thirsty, Restless, Kettles

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• If you find a girl who reads, keeps her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea (coffee) and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She'll talk as if the characters in the book are real because, for a while, they always are. Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable.

  Robert Pattinson

  Girl, Couple, Real

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• Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.

  Alexander Pope

  Three, Sometimes, Anna

  'The Rape of the Lock' (1714) canto 3, l. 7

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• Women are like tea bags.They do not know how strong they are until they get into hot water.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Strong, Water, Hot

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• Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

  Josh Billings

  Maids, Scandal, Old Maids

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• To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Women, Sisterhood, Media

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Morning, Cheer, Coffee

  1891 Over the Teacups, ch.1.

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• After a cup of tea (two spoonsful for each cup, and don't let it stand more than three minutes,) it says to the brain, "Now, rise, and show your strength. Be eloquent, and deep, and tender; see, with a clear eye, into Nature and into life; spread your white wings of quivering thought, and soar, a god-like spirit, over the whirling world beneath you, up through long lanes of flaming stars to the gates of eternity!

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Stars, Eye, Wings

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.165, Diderot Publishing

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• The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I like the crackling logs, the shaded lights, the scent of buttered toast, the general atmosphere of leisured cosiness.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Country, Light, House

  P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “The Code of the Woosters: (Jeeves & Wooster)”, p.56, Random House

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• In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea...the mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.

  George Gissing

  Food, Grandmother, Cooking

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• Tea is nought but this: first you heat the water, then you make the tea. Then you drink it properly. That is all you need to know.

  Sen no Rikyu

  Tea Drinking, Water, Needs

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• Cynthia came in quietly and set a cup of tea before him. He kissed her hand, inexpressibly grateful, and she went back into the kitchen. When we view the little things with thanksgiving, even they become big things.

  Jan Karon

  Grateful, Views, Hands

  Jan Karon (2005). “These High, Green Hills”, Penguin Books

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• And in those varieties of pain of which we spoke anon, what a part of confidante has that poor teapot played ever since the kindly plant was introduced among us! What myriads of women have cried over it, to be sure! What sickbeds it has smoked by! What fevered lips have received refreshment from out of it! Nature meant very gently by women when she made that teaplant; and with a little thought what a series of pictures and groups the fancy may conjure up and assemble round the teapot and cup!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  May, Littles, Fancy

  "The History of Pendennis".

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• In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.

  John Osborne

  London, Scandal, Sweeteners

  John Osborne, Henry Fielding (2011). “Tom Jones”, p.114, Oberon Books

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• Acceptable rules of conduct were suspended when it came to the spoon shortage. The deficit had gotten so bad that prices were all but unaffordable, and dynastic spoon succession had become a matter of considerable interest. Spoons were even postcode engraved and carried on one's person to eliminate theft, and good table manners, one of the eight pillars upon which the Collective was built, had been relaxed to allow tea to be stirred - shockingly - with the handle of a fork.

  Jasper Fforde

  Eight, Pillars, Table Manners

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• Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties.

  Confucius

  Mind, Body, Spirit

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• It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.

  Robert Bly

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Passion, Thinking, Strange

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.32, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea - a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a bench and looked sideways at one another. Mrs. Tiggy-winkle's hand, holding the tea-cup, was very very brown, and very very wrinkly with the soap-suds; and all through her gown and her cap, there were HAIRPINS sticking wrong end out; so that Lucie didn't like to sit too near her.

  Beatrix Potter

  Fire, Hands, Cups

  Beatrix Potter (2016). “Collection of Beatrix Potter: Beatrix's Tales”, p.37, VM eBooks

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• When you see the natural and almost universal craving in English sick for their 'tea,' you cannot but feel that nature knows what she is about. ... A little tea or coffee restores them. ... There is nothing yet discovered which is a substitute to the English patient for his cup of tea.

  Florence Nightingale

  Coffee, Science, Sick

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and What it is Not”, p.76

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