Tea Quotes - Page 37

• ...what I feel we ought to do at this juncture is to dash off somewhere where it's quiet and there aren't so many housesdancing the 'Blue Danube' and shove some tea into ourselves. And over the pot and muffins I shall have something veryimportant to say to you.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Blue, Muffins, Quiet

  P.G. Wodehouse (2000). “The Most Of P.G. Wodehouse”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

  Henry Fielding

  Scandal, Cold, Murder

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• "Poor Mrs. Benefer," Heather murmured. "Well, a nice cup of tea and she'll be right as rain.""Oh, puh-leeze, Heather. A nice cup of tea, indeed. A nice cup of tea, two Prozac, and sleep for a week, maybe..."

  Douglas Whiteway

  Nice, Rain, Sleep

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• A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, Impossible, Ends

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2440, Delphi Classics

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• The very sight of a teapot puts a smile on the face of most people. One cannot help but think of more serene and genteel times. From a whimsical child's teapot to an elegant English Teapot, to collectible teapots that adorn some homes, they are a subtle reminder of all that is good in this world.

  Barbara Roberts

  Children, Home, Thinking

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• But to say that Sarah Palin and the tea party movement is responsible for vandalism or threats is just a way to dismiss the American people and, and their dissatisfaction with this health care bill.

  Laura Ingraham

  Party, People, Movement

  "Laura Ingraham Throws Down With Matt Lauer on Today". www.newsbusters.org. March 29, 2010.

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• I have so many runner-up cups that I am thinking of starting my own tea shop.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Thinking, Cups, Starting

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• I hate to admit this but I don't even know how to make a cup of tea or coffee. I can boil a kettle for a pot noodle and I've been known to warm up some food in the microwave.

  Michael Owen

  Hate, Coffee, Noodles

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• What do you think this is, a f****** tea party? No you can't have a f****** glass of water, you can f****** wait like the rest of us.

  Allan Border

  Party, Thinking, Glasses

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• Soup is cuisine's kindest course. It breathes reassurance; it steams consolation; after a weary day it promotes sociability, as the five o'clock cup of tea or the cocktail hour.

  Louis Pullig De Gouy

  Party, Food, Cocktails

  Louis Pullig De Gouy (1949). “The Soup Book: 770 Recipes”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• As far as her mom was concerned, tea fixed everything. Have a cold? Have some tea. Broken bones? There's a tea for that too. Somewhere in her mother's pantry, Laurel suspected, was a box of tea that said, 'In case of Armageddon, steep three to five minutes'.

  Aprilynne Pike

  Mom, Mother, Broken

  "Illusions". Book by Aprilynne Pike, 2011.

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• The Death Star is just full of British actors opening doors and going,Oh... I... oh... What is it Lieutenant Sebastian? It's just the Rebels, sir... they're here. My God, man! Do they want tea? No, I think they're after something a bit more than that, sir. I don't know what it is, but they've brought a flag. Damn, that's dash cunning of them.

  Eddie Izzard

  Stars, Men, Thinking

  "Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• I have to wake up and drink chamomile tea to slow down.

  Janice Dickinson

  Wake Up, Drink, Slow Down

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• Chocolate thickens the saliva, which isn't good news if you've gotta recite Shakespeare or sing Iron Man. Having said that, you're not supposed to drink tea either but I still do before gigs. It's not very rock and roll, but it's like a magic potion to me.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Men, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.

  Charles Lamb

  Luxury, Delicacy, Sugar

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia [both series]; to which are added, Letters, and Rosamund, a tale”, p.120

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• I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.

  Oscar Wilde

  Believe, Clock, Refreshments

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.7, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat round the board guzzling in their greed; and really, what with their chatter and recriminations, the noise, as Wendy said, was positively deafening.

  James M. Barrie

  Believe, Greed, Meals

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.94, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.

  Mark Twain

  Lunch, Dinner, Insult

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• I turned on the pillow with a little moan, and at this juncture Jeeves entered with the vital oolong. I clutched at it like a drowning man at a straw hat.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Men, Littles, Hats

  P. G. Wodehouse (2010). “Right Ho, Jeeves”, p.53, The Floating Press

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• Always remember that, nine times out of ten, you probably aren’t having a full-on nervous breakdown – you just need a cup of tea and a biscuit. You’d be amazed how easily and repeatedly you can confuse the two. Get a big biscuit tin.

  Caitlin Moran

  Two, Tin, Needs

  Caitlin Moran (2016). “Moranifesto”, p.343, Random House

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• America's new tea lovers are the people who have forced the tea trade to wake up. Elsewhere, tea has meant a certain way, a certain tradition, for centuries, but this is America! The American tea lover is heir to all the world's tea drinking traditions, from Japanese tea ceremonies to Russian samovars to English scones in the afternoon. India chai, China green, you name it and we can claim it and make it ours. And that's just what we are doing. In this respect, ours is the most innovative and exciting tea scene anywhere.

  James Norwood Pratt

  Drinking, Names, America

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• Tea is quiet and our thirst for tea is never far from our craving for beauty.

  James Norwood Pratt

  Quiet, Thirst, Craving

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• My love affair with nature is so deep that I am not satisfied with being a mere onlooker, or nature tourist. I crave a more real and meaningful relationship. The spicy teas and tasty delicacies I prepare from wild ingredients are the bread and wine in which I have communion and fellowship with nature, and with the Author of that nature.

  Euell Gibbons

  Meaningful, Real, Wine

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• The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovar’s crooked nose.

  Ella Leya

  Noses, Conversation, Crooked

  Ella Leya (2015). “Orphan Sky”, p.80, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.

  Amy Goodman

  Wall, Party, Numbers

  Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan (2012). “The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope”, p.327, Haymarket Books

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