Cups Of Tea Quotes

• The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I like the crackling logs, the shaded lights, the scent of buttered toast, the general atmosphere of leisured cosiness.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Country, Light, House

  P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “The Code of the Woosters: (Jeeves & Wooster)”, p.56, Random House

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• When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspiring, Lonely, Loneliness

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• Cynthia came in quietly and set a cup of tea before him. He kissed her hand, inexpressibly grateful, and she went back into the kitchen. When we view the little things with thanksgiving, even they become big things.

  Jan Karon

  Grateful, Views, Hands

  Jan Karon (2005). “These High, Green Hills”, Penguin Books

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• Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

  Chaim Potok

  Tea, Happy Things, Afternoon Tea

  Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort, and refinement.

  Arthur Gray

  Tea, Comfort, Beverages

  Arthur Gray (2012). “The Little Tea Book”, p.1, BoD – Books on Demand

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  If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you.

  William E. Gladstone

  Cheer, Tea Drinking, Coffee And Tea

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• There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

  Lin Yutang

  Tea, World, Quiet

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

  Alice Walker

  Tea, Picnics, Beverages

  Alice Walker (2003). “The third life of Grange Copeland: Meridian ; The color purple”

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• All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.

  George Orwell

  Strong, Years, Tea

  George Orwell (1986). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• Tea - the cups that cheer but not inebriate.

  William Cowper

  Cheer, Tea Drinking, Evening

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 4 'The Winter Evening' l. 34.

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• I'm an afternoon tea type of girl. I come from a Russian background where we love our teas. So between lunch and dinner after training I come home and I love a nice cup of tea with jam in it, as we drink it there. Black English Breakfast with raspberry jam is my favorite.

  Maria Sharapova

  Girl, Nice, Home

  "Self Talks to Tennis Star Maria Sharapova (She's got a sweet tooth!)". Interview with Bari Lieberman, www.self.com. August 30, 2011.

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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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• My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.

  Charles Dickens

  Giving, Tea, Cups

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy”, p.14, Booklassic

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  Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

  Henry Fielding

  Love, Gossip, Tea

  'Love in Several Masques' (1728) act 4, sc. 11

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• A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Glasses, Scotland, Tea

  Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.23, Wakefield Press

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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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• A cup of tea would restore my normality.

  Douglas Adams

  Tea, Cups, Normality

  "Fictional character: Arthur Dent". "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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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 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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• Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.

  Agatha Christie

  Tea, Cups, Said

  Agatha Christie (1976). “Sleeping Murder, The Murder at the Vicarage”

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• 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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  You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Reading, Long

  "On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature".

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