Kettles Quotes

• Polly put the kettle on, we'll all have tea.

  Charles Dickens

  Tea

  1841 Grip, the raven. Barnaby Rudge, ch.17.

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• The world is full of pots jeering at kettles.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  World, Jeering, Judgment

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• Remember the steam kettle; though up to its neck in hot water it continues to sing.

  Brownie Wise

  Water, Hot, Necks

  "Sales Speech: Eat Your P’s If You Want to Grow Rich" by Peter Bennett, www.laverneonline.com. November 29, 2012.

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• the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.

  Agnes Repplier

  Cat, Tea, Sound

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• A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

  Sydney Smith

  Men, Way In Life, Hands

  Sydney Smith, Lady Saba Holland Holland (1855). “A memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.232

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• When you look in the mirror and despair and none of your clothes seem appropriate, relax, put the kettle on. It might suit you.

  Simon Munnery

  Mirrors, Suits You, Clothes

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• Nothing is more powerful than allowing yourself to truly be affected by things. Whether it’s a song, a stranger, a mountain, a tea kettle, an article, a sentence, a footstep -feel it all. Look around you. All of this is for you. Take it and have gratitude. Give it and feel love.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Song, Gratitude, Powerful

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

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Tea, Thirsty, Restless

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• Foul and magical fumes bubbled out of the kettle, like the flatulence of a dragon on a demon-only diet.

  Christopher Moore

  Dragons, Demon, Flatulence

  Christopher Moore (2010). “Bite Me”, p.75, Hachette UK

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• The best ideas aren't hidden in shadowy recesses. They're right in front of us, hidden in plain sight. Innovation seldom depends on discovering obscure or subtle elements but in seeing the obvious with fresh eyes. This is easier said than done because nothing is as hard to see as what's right before our eyes. We overlook what we take for granted. Billions of tea drinkers observed the force of steam escaping from water boiling in a kettle before James Watt realized that this vapor could be converted into energy.

  Richard Farson

  Leadership, Eye, Ideas

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• We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.

  Black Kettle

  War, Dark, Clouds

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• I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.

  Samuel Johnson

  Morning, Food, Tea Drinking

  Review in the 'Literary Magazine' vol. 2, no. 13 (1757)

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• We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.

  Black Kettle

  Peace, Home, Sleep

  "The Boy's Book about Indians: Being What I Saw and Heard for Three Years on the Plains". Book by Edmund Bostwick Tuttle, p. 61, 1873.

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• If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.

  Alan Watts

  Black, Calling, World

  Alan W Watts (2012). “Wisdom Of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety”, p.76, Random House

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• I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies.

  Black Kettle

  Giving, Soldier, Enemy

  Speaking to Colorado Governor Evans, Colonel Chivington, Major Wynkoop and others in Denver (Autumn 1864), as quoted in "The Boy's Book about Indians : Being What I Saw and Heard for Three Years on the Plains" by Edmund Bostwick Tuttle, p. 61, 1873.

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• I went into a shop and I said, "Can someone sell me a kettle." The bloke said "Kenwood" I said, "Where is he?"

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Humor, Blokes

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• The cozy fire is bright and gay, The merry kettle boils away and hums a cheerful song. I sing the saucer and the cup; Pray, Mary, fill the teapot up, And do not make it strong

  Barry Pain

  Song, Strong, Gay

  Barry Pain (1892). “Playthings and Parodies”, London [etc.] Cassell

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• I love Dylan. I only met him once, about three years ago, back at the Kettle of Fish on MacDougal Street. That was before I went to England. I think both of us were pretty drunk at the time, so he probably doesn’t remember it.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Thinking, Years, Drunk

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• Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.

  Christopher Morley

  Men, Oysters, Water

  Christopher Morley (1919). “Mince Pie: Adventures on the Sunny Side of Grub Street”

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• We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week... The bottom is out of the Universe.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Tea, Week, Made

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.4452, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Broken, Tea, Add

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• Patience is a virtue. (Tee) Excuse me, pot, could you not pick on the kettle? (Joe)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Patience Is A Virtue, Excuse, Pot

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• God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If God were as wrathful, the world would have been a heap of ruins long ago.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Men, Wrath, Long Ago

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• Careful, pot," Tod said. "Someone might notice your resemblance to the kettle.

  Rachel Vincent

  Might, Pot, Said

  "Before I Wake". Book by Rachel Vincent, June 26, 2012.

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• The problem is compounded by the fact that the connection between cause and effect seems so improbable. By turning on the lights, filling the kettle, taking the children to school, driving to the shops, we are condemning other people to death. We never chose to do this. We do not see ourselves as killers. We perform these acts without passion or intent.

  George Monbiot

  Children, Passion, School

  George Monbiot (2007). “Heat: how to stop the planet from burning”, South End Pr

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