Lewis Carroll Quotes About Tea

Quotes about: Tea

• This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she got up in great disgust, and walked off; the Dormouse fell asleep instantly, and neither of the others took the least notice of her going, though she looked back once or twice, half hoping that they would call after her: the last time she saw them, they were trying to put the Dormouse into the teapot. At any rate I'll never go THERE again!' said Alice as she picked her way through the wood. "It's the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all my life!

  Lewis Carroll

  Party, Tea, Trying

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.69, Penguin

• 'Have some wine,' the March Hare said in an encouraging tone. Alice looked around the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. 'I don't see any wine,' she remarked. 'There isn't any,' said the March Hare.

  Lewis Carroll

  Wine, Tea, Tables

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: That CUPCAKE was off her head!”, p.55, Oldcastle Books

• "Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. "I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more."

  Lewis Carroll

  Tea, Tone, Wonderland

  'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1865) ch. 7

• Well that was the silliest tea party I ever went to! I am never going back there again!

  Lewis Carroll

  Party, Tea, Tea Party

• Mad Hatter: Would you like a little more tea? Alice: Well, I haven't had any yet, so I can't very well take more. March Hare: Ah, you mean you can't very well take less. Mad Hatter: Yes. You can always take more than nothing.

  Lewis Carroll

  Mean, Yes You Can, Mad

• Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.

  Lewis Carroll

  Sweet, Sky, Tea

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 7 (1865)

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

  Lewis Carroll

  Tea, Wonderland, Said

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

• It's always tea-time.

  Lewis Carroll

  Tea, Tea Time

  Lewis Carroll (2008). “Alice in Wonderland-English Classics”, p.60, Star Publications

• Crawling at your feet,' said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), `you may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings are thin slices of Bread-and-butter, its body is a crust, and its head is a lump of sugar.' And what does IT live on?' Weak tea with cream in it.' A new difficulty came into Alice's head. `Supposing it couldn't find any?' she suggested. Then it would die, of course.' But that must happen very often,' Alice remarked thoughtfully. It always happens,' said the Gnat.

  Lewis Carroll

  Butterfly, Wings, Feet

  Lewis Carroll (2017). “Through the Looking-Glass: and what Alice found there”, p.26, BoD – Books on Demand

• Five o'clock tea" is a phrase our "rude forefathers," even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completelyis it a thing of to-day; and yet, so rapid is the March of the Mind, it has already risen into a national institution, and rivals, in its universal application to all ranks and ages, and as a specific for "all the ills that flesh is heir to," the glorious Magna Charta.

  Lewis Carroll

  Rude, Tea, Mind

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