Tea Quotes - Page 14

• My own approach to literary problems is very like the one Dr. Johnson's blind housekeeper used when she poured tea-she put her finger inside the cup.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Drs, Cups, Problem

  Flannery O'Connor (2014). “Mystery and Manners”, p.25, Faber & Faber

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• Texas senator and tea party favorite Ted Cruz announced he's running for president. He pledged to lead America boldly forward into the 1950s.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Party, Texas

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• I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Philosophy, History

  'The Innocents Abroad' (1869) ch. 27.

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• Oh, we're playing nice now? Shall we have tea first? Brew up a nice pot of kiss-my-ass?

  Julie Kagawa

  Nice, Humorous, Kissing

  "The Iron King". Book by Julie Kagawa, February 1, 2010.

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• An office party is not, as is sometimes supposed, the Managing Director's chance to kiss the tea-girl. It is the tea-girl's chance to kiss the Managing Director (however bizarre an ambition this may seem to anyone who has seen the Managing Director face on).

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Girl, Business, Party

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• Most people in the Tea Party are nice, but that hasn't stopped liberals from hating them.

  Ann Coulter

  Hate, Nice, Party

  "Ann Coulter: The "Never Trust a Liberal over 3" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, m.thetimesweekly.com. November 20, 2013.

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• A group called the Texas Tea Party Patriots is hosting a debate next month where Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain will go head to head, while people watching that will go head to pillow.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Party, Texas, People

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• The water in L.A. tastes like bleach. I literally have to make my tea with Evian water.

  Ashley Madekwe

  Water, Bleach, Taste

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Ideas, Space

  Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.233, New York Review of Books

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• Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them.

  Edith Wharton

  Upset, Inanimate Objects, Cups

  Edith Wharton (2016). “A Backward Glance”, p.172, Edith Wharton

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• Sex and love are like tea and milk. They can be mixed or they can be taken straight. Each has certain distinctive characteristics, but when they are combined they form a unique substance.

  Joyce Brothers

  Sex, Taken, Unique

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• Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him.

  Rose Macaulay

  Music, Different, Kind

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• Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm.

  Gloria Steinem

  Past, College, Cake

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.198, Open Road Media

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• Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Drink, Hyphens, Perfume

  Natalie Clifford Barney (1992). “Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.161, NYU Press

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• I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.

  Norman Douglas

  Drinking, Reading, Wish

  Norman Douglas (1982). “South Wind”, p.282, Courier Corporation

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• It is claimed that the United States gets the cleanest and purest tea in the market, and certainly it is too good to warrant the nervous apprehension which strains and dilutes it into nothingness. The English do not strain their tea in the fervid fashion we do. They like to see a few leaves dawdling about the cup. They like to know what they are drinking.

  Agnes Repplier

  Fashion, Drinking, United States

  Agnes Repplier (1932). “To Think of Tea!”

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• English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

  Agnes Repplier

  Civilization, England, Cricket

  Agnes Repplier (1932). “To Think of Tea!”

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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, Sound, Hours

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• The richness and endless variety of human relationships ... that's what authors, even the finest and greatest, only succeed in hinting at. It's a hopeless business, like trying to dip up the ocean with a tea-spoon.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Ocean, Trying, Spoons

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Mark J. Madigan (1993). “Keeping Fires Night and Day: Selected Letters of Dorothy Canfield Fisher”, p.94, University of Missouri Press

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• Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two invaluable contributions to civilization - this tea ritual and the detective novel.

  Ayn Rand

  Civilization, Two, Mystery Novels

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.307, Penguin

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• Life is like a cup of tea, the sugar is all at the bottom!

  Julia Ward Howe

  Life Is Like, Age, Sugar

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• Wages? You want to be wage slaves? Answer me that! Of course not. What is it that makes wage slaves? Wages! I want you to be free. Strike off your chains! Strike up the band! Strike three you're out! Remember, there's nothing like Liberty, except Colliers and The Saturday Evening Post. Be free, now and forever. One and individual. One for all and all for me, and tea for two and six for a quarter.

  Groucho Marx

  Wisdom, Two, Forever

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• A man that lives on pork, fine-flour bread, rich pies and cakes, and condiments, drinks tea and coffee, and uses tobacco, might as well try to fly as to be chaste in thought.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Coffee, Food, Men

  John Harvey Kellogg (1881). “Plain Facts for Old and Young”

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• As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.

  George Orwell

  Food, Oil, Cooking

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

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• Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two of hot toast, a pot of steaming Darjeeling tea, and you may tell the butler to dispense with the caviar, truffles and nightingales' tongues.

  Craig Claiborne

  Food, Two, Giving

  Craig Claiborne (1994). “Craig Claiborne's New York Times Food Encyclopedia”, Outlet

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