Tea Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• And indeed there will be time for the yellow smoke that slides along the street rubbing its back upon the window-panes; there will be time , there will be time to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; there will be time to murder and create, and time for all the works and days of hands that lift and drop a question on your plate; time for you and time for me, and time yet for a hundred indecisions, and for a hundred visions and revisions, before the taking of toast and tea.

  T. S. Eliot

  Hands, Window Panes, Yellow

  T. S. Eliot (2012). “The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• What kind of tea do you want?" "There´s more than one kind of tea?...What do you have?" "Let´s see... Blueberry, Raspberry, Ginseng, Sleepytime, Green Tea, Green Tea with Lemon, Green Tea with Lemon and Honey, Liver Disaster, Ginger with Honey, Ginger Without Honey, Vanilla Almond, White Truffle Coconut, Chamomile, Blueberry Chamomile, Decaf Vanilla Walnut, Constant Comment and Earl Grey." -"I.. Uh...What are you having?... Did you make some of those up?

  Bryan Lee O'Malley

  White, Coconuts, Almonds

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• Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.

  Lorrie Moore

  Coffee, Sadness, Worry

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Dec 15, 2010

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• Stephen had just come from a class discussion in which several students believed that the right cup of herbal tea would save them from pain and sorrow. Well acquainted with pain and sorrow, Stephen did not contribute to the discussion. He merely crossed these idiots off his list of possible friends.

  Caroline B. Cooney

  Pain, Class, Sorrow

  Caroline B. Cooney (2008). “What Janie Found”, p.100, Laurel Leaf

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• You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. You can make the work a chore, or you can have a good time. You can do it the way you used to clear the dinner dishes when you were thirteen, or you can do it as a Japanese person would perform a tea ceremony, with a level of concentration and care in which you can lose yourself, and so in which you can find yourself.

  Anne Lamott

  Artist, Finding Yourself, Care

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.236, Anchor

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• There sure are a lot of these 'instant' products on the market. Instant coffee, instant tea, instant pudding, instant cereal... instant dislike.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Coffee, Cereal, Pudding

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• For instance, dragons are deeply revered by the Chinese. According to legend they have megapowers that include weather control and life creation. And they’re seen as kind, benevolent creatures. Funny. Every fairy tale I’d ever heard involving dragons starred daring knights trotting off to kill said dragons. Probably the real reason every time East meets West they get pissed off and throw tea in our faces.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Real, Knights, Dragons

  Jennifer Rardin (2011). “Another One Bites The Dust: Book two in the Jaz Parks sequence”, p.33, Hachette UK

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• On the delivery plate of the Nutri-Matic Drink Synthesizer was a small tray, on which say three bone china cups and saucers, a bone china jug of milk, a silver teapot full of the best tea Arthur had ever tasted and a small printed note saying "Wait.

  Douglas Adams

  Waiting, Jugs, Three

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.25, Pan Macmillan

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• The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended.

  Holly Black

  Party, Dolls, Propriety

  Holly Black (2012). “Tithe”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• Gemma, you see how it is. They've planned our entire lives, from what we shall wear to whom we shall marry and where we shall live. It's one lump of sugar in your tea whether you like it or not and you'd best smile even if you're dying deep inside. We're like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can't look left or right but only straight ahead where they would lead. Please, please, please, Gemma, let's not die inside before we have to.

  Libba Bray

  Horse, Mean, Dying

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• Disciples and devotees…what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the tea!

  Wei Wu Wei

  Drinking, Disciple, Devotee

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• Switters was actually quite fond of Seattle's weather, and not merely because of it's ambivalence. He liked it's subtle, muted qualities and the landscape that those qualities encouraged if not engendered: vistas that seemed to have been sketched with a sumi brush dipped in quicksilver and green tea. It was fresh, it was clean, it was gently primal, and mystically suggestive.

  Tom Robbins

  Weather, Quality, Landscape

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.145, Bantam

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• I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. That thing you had to force yourself to do - the actual act of writing - turns out to be the best part. It's like discovering that while you thought you needed the tea ceremony for the caffeine, what you really needed was the tea ceremony. The act of writing turns out to be its own reward.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, People, Giving

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.26, Anchor

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• You know," she said, stirring her tea, "the fastest way to get him off your back is to sleep with him. And tell him you love him. Preferably while in bed." I smirked and the tea almost came out of my nose. "He'd run like he was on fire.

  Ilona Andrews

  Running, Sleep, Fire

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Burns: A Kate Daniels Novel: 2”, p.102, Hachette UK

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• Don't cry." "How can I not?" I asked him. "You just said you loved me." "Well, why else did you think all of this was happening?" He set the book aside to wrap his arms around me. "The Furies wouldn't be trying to kill you if I didn't love you." "I didn't know," I said. Tears were trickling down my cheeks, but I did nothing to try to stop them. His shirt was absorving most of them. "You never said anything about it. Every time I saw you, you just acted so... wild." "How was I supposed to act?" he asked. "You kept doing things like throwing tea in my face.

  Meg Cabot

  Book, Love You, Thinking

  Meg Cabot (2011). “Abandon”, p.300, Scholastic Inc.

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• I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs floating in it, and eavesdropped on a pair of Shetland pony breeders. Despondency makes one hanker after lives one never led. Why have you given your life to books, TC? Dull, dull, dull! The memoirs are bad enough, but all that ruddy fiction! Hero goes on a journey, stranger comes to town, somebody wants something, they get it or they don't, will is pitted against will. "Admire me, for I am a metaphor.

  David Mitchell

  Book, Hero, Journey

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.169, Random House

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• I saw the Fall of Troy! World War Five! I was pushing boxes at the Boston Tea Party! Now I'm gonna die in a dungeon.... [disgustedly] in Cardiff!

  Russell T Davies

  War, Party, Fall

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• Sweetened ice tea is one of the things I love about the South, right up there with homemade biscuits and cheese grits.

  Emily Giffin

  Ice, Things I Love, Grit

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.57, St. Martin's Press

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• It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Boston harbor was the tea, woman's favorite beverage. The tobacco and whiskey, though heavily taxed, they clung to with the tenacity of the devil-fish.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Men, Boston, Devil

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible”, p.141, tredition

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• While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea

  E. M. Forster

  Heart, Culture, Lips

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.552, Delphi Classics

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• I looked at him. "You really need to work on your threats. I can't tell if you're threatening me or inviting me for tea.

  Ilona Andrews

  Needs, Threatening, Inviting

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.70, Penguin

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• Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Pain, Heart, Sadness

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• She divorced her husband, y' know. I never knew him, it was before I met Jane. Apparently she came back from work one mornin' an' found her husband in bed with the milkman. With the milkman, honest to God. Well, apparently, from that day forward Jane was a feminist. An' I've noticed, she never takes milk in her tea.

  Willy Russell

  Husband, Feminist, Bed

  "Shirley Valentine". Book by Willy Russell, 1986.

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• Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation...is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew.

  Dan Millman

  Courage, Fear, Laughter

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.163, ReadHowYouWant.com

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