Cups Of Tea Quotes

• 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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• When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspiring, Lonely, Loneliness

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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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  If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you.

  William E. Gladstone

  Cheer, Tea Drinking, Coffee And Tea

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• Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

  Chaim Potok

  Tea, Happy Things, Afternoon Tea

  Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort, and refinement.

  Arthur Gray

  Tea, Comfort, Beverages

  Arthur Gray (2012). “The Little Tea Book”, p.1, BoD – Books on Demand

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• There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

  Lin Yutang

  Tea, World, Quiet

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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  Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

  Henry Fielding

  Love, Gossip, Tea

  'Love in Several Masques' (1728) act 4, sc. 11

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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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• Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Healing, Tea, Finding Yourself

  "The Toys of Peace and Other Papers".

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• Coffee isn't my cup of tea.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Hilarious, Food

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• Tea...is a religion of the art of life.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Art, Tea, Iced Tea

  Kakuzo Okakura (2008). “The Book of Tea”, p.43, Applewood Books

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• The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.

  Charles Dickens

  Two, People, Tea

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Martin Chuzzlewi”, p.728, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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• A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfect!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Real, Coffee, Eye

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.52

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• A cup of tea would restore my normality.

  Douglas Adams

  Tea, Cups, Normality

  "Fictional character: Arthur Dent". "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.

  George Orwell

  Strong, Years, Tea

  George Orwell (1986). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

  Alice Walker

  Tea, Picnics, Beverages

  Alice Walker (2003). “The third life of Grange Copeland: Meridian ; The color purple”

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• Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.

  Virginia Woolf

  Reality, Tea, Cups

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• A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Glasses, Scotland, Tea

  Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.23, Wakefield Press

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• My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.

  Charles Dickens

  Giving, Tea, Cups

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy”, p.14, Booklassic

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  You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Reading, Long

  "On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature".

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• I'm an afternoon tea type of girl. I come from a Russian background where we love our teas. So between lunch and dinner after training I come home and I love a nice cup of tea with jam in it, as we drink it there. Black English Breakfast with raspberry jam is my favorite.

  Maria Sharapova

  Girl, Nice, Home

  "Self Talks to Tennis Star Maria Sharapova (She's got a sweet tooth!)". Interview with Bari Lieberman, www.self.com. August 30, 2011.

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• Tea - the cups that cheer but not inebriate.

  William Cowper

  Cheer, Tea Drinking, Evening

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 4 'The Winter Evening' l. 34.

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• Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.

  Agatha Christie

  Tea, Cups, Said

  Agatha Christie (1976). “Sleeping Murder, The Murder at the Vicarage”

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