Cups Of Tea Quotes - Page 2

• Bring me a cup of tea and the 'Times.'

  Queen Victoria

  Tea, Cups, Tea Time

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• Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

  Samuel Johnson

  Wine, Glasses, Numbers

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales”, p.363

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• Haji Ali taught me to share three cups of tea, to slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects. He taught me that I had more to learn from the people I work with than I could ever hope to teach them.

  Greg Mortenson

  People, Tea, Important

  Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin (2009). “Three Cups of Tea: Young Readers Edition: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time”, p.79, Penguin

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

  Boy George

  Sex, 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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• I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast.

  Ethel Merman

  Tea, Kitchen, Cups

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.

  Mick Jagger

  Funny, Tea, Three

  "Song: "Live With Me" ("Let It Bleed")". December 5, 1969.

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• The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea

  Christian Lacroix

  Ideas, Tea, Cups

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• Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.

  Katherine Dunn

  School, Usa, Tea

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• Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Simple, Meditation, Tea

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• Life is a cup of tea; the more heartily we drink the sooner we reach the dregs.

  James M. Barrie

  Tea, Cups, Life Is

  James M. Barrie (2013). “My Best Plays (Annotated Edition)”, p.18, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If at first you don't succeed, have a cup of tea.

  Peter Scott

  Tea, Cups, Firsts

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• He got me a cup of tea with honey, toast with honey, yogurt with honey, like I was John the Baptist with the flu.

  Anne Lamott

  Tea, Yogurt, Baptists

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.15, Penguin

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• I feel displaced when I'm back in America, like a visitor. I feel like if I don't get a cup of tea I'm going to lose my mind.

  Chrissie Hynde

  America, Tea, Mind

  2003 In the Daily Telegraph, 19 Apr.

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• I'm a cup of tea in a world of lattes.

  Len Goodman

  Tea, World, Cups

  "'Dancing with the Stars: All-Stars' - season premiere recap". www.digitalspy.com. September 25, 2012.

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• Sister Mary was a nurse and nurses, whatever their creed, are primarily nurses, which had a lot to do with wearing your watch upside down, keeping calm in emergencies, and dying for a cup of tea.

  Terry Pratchett

  Nurse, Tea, Dying

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• So he decided to stay out of it and instead turned back to Lady Bridgerton, who was, as it happened, the closest person to him, anyway. “And how are you this afternoon?” he asked. Lady Bridgerton gave him a very small smile as she handed him his cup of tea. “Smart man,” she murmured. “It’s self-preservation, really,” he said noncommittally. “Don’t say that. They wouldn’t hurt you.” “No, but I’m sure to be injured in the cross fire.

  Julia Quinn

  Hurt, Smart, Men

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• Sometimes I feel that I am destined always to be offstage whenever the main action occurs. That God has made me the victim of some cosmic practical joke, by assigning me little more than a walk-on part in my own life. Or sometimes I feel that my role is simply to be a spectator to other people's stories, and always to wander away at the most important moment, drifiting into the kitchen to make a cup of tea just as the denouement unfolds.

  Jonathan Coe

  People, Kitchen, Tea

  Jonathan Coe (2001). “The rotters' club”

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• It's as if Japanese men, all to aware that deep inside they'd like to stomp Tokyo flat, breathe fire, and do truly terrible and disgusting things to women, have built themselves the most beautiful of prisons for their rampaging ids. Instead of indulging their fantasies, they focus on food, or landscaping, or the perfect cup of tea -- or a single slab of o-toro tuna -- letting themselves go only at baseball games and office parties.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Beautiful, Baseball, Party

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• I suppose that saves us from having to determine what to do with a butler who goes around killing people. It certainly reflects badly upon our domestic staff. Still, I shall miss him. There was a man who knew how to brew a good cup of tea.

  Gail Carriger

  Men, People, Missing

  Gail Carriger (2012). “Timeless: Book 5 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.233, Hachette UK

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• Where do you get your ideas? people ask. Sometimes they’re at the bottoms of cups of tea. Sometimes they’re lurking in my shower. Sometimes they’re waiting patiently in glass cases in museums.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Museums, Glasses, Ideas

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• Your friends are at the house.' I sit up, straight. 'Who'? 'I don't know. Weird people. The Sullivan girl, whose father got the Gosford police to pick you up.' 'Siobhan?' 'And another one who's making cups of tea for everyone, and keeping the boy who's telling Luca fart jokes away from the girl who says he's "the last bastion of patriarchal poor taste".' 'Justine, Thomas and Tara.' And the drug fiend, Jimmy, is keeping Mia calm and the Trombal boy's rung about ten times. I don't like his manner on the phone.' 'You won't like any guy's manner on the phone.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Father, Boys

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.186, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Yes, the world may aspire to vacuousness, lost souls mourn beauty, insignificance surrounds us. Then let us drink a cup of tea. Silence descends, one hears the wind outside, autumn leaves rustle and take flight, the cat sleeps in a warm pool of light. And, with each swallow, time is sublimed.

  Muriel Barbery

  Sleep, Cat, Autumn

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• Dad has brought me a cup of tea in bed this morning! I said, 'Vati, why are you waking me up in the middle of the night? Are you on fire?

  Louise Rennison

  Morning, Dad, Night

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• Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.

  Jasper Fforde

  Time, Tea, Firsts

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• Madame Lefoux accepted a cup of tea and sat on another little settee, next to the relocated calico cat. The cat clearly believed Madame Lefoux was there to provide chin scratches. Madame Lefoux provided.

  Gail Carriger

  Cat, Tea, Scratches

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