Tea Time Quotes

• It's always tea-time.

  Lewis Carroll

  Tea

  Lewis Carroll (2008). “Alice in Wonderland-English Classics”, p.60, Star Publications

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• Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time.

  Lewis Carroll

  Tea, Wonderland, Said

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.44

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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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  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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• Another tea-time, another day older.

  Ian Anderson

  Tea, Another Day

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• Come along inside... We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Tea, Buns, World

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• Tea...is a religion of the art of life.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Art, Tea, Cups Of Tea

  Kakuzo Okakura (2008). “The Book of Tea”, p.43, Applewood Books

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• Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Time, Tea Drinking

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2016). “The Miracle of Mindfulness, Gift Edition”, p.29, Beacon Press

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• Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Healing, Tea, Finding Yourself

  "The Toys of Peace and Other Papers".

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• Women are like tea bags.They do not know how strong they are until they get into hot water.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Strong, Water, Tea

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• 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 a toast and tea.

  T. S. Eliot

  Window Panes, Tea, Vision

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Bring me a cup of tea and the 'Times.'

  Queen Victoria

  Tea, Cups, Cups Of Tea

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• Time for Tolerance,Equality, and Acceptance, It's allways TEA time with my Friends.

  Gregory Douglass

  Friendship, Acceptance, Funny Friend

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• Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

  Henry James

  Life, Tea Drinking, Coffee And Tea

  1881 The Portrait of a Lady, ch.1.

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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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• 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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• One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.

  John Milton

  Dream, Drinking, Alcohol

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors”, p.379

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• My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky;
  It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by;
  For every night at tea-time and before you take your seat,
  With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Night, Sky, Tea

  1885 A Child's Garden of Verses, no.30,'The Lamplighter', stanza1.

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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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• I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

  Douglas Adams

  Life, Positive, Travel

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.354, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

  Sydney Smith

  Tea, Thank God, World

  Sydney Smith, lady Saba (Smith) Holland Holland (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.436

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• Christopher Robin was home by this time, because it was the afternoon, and he was so glad to see them that they stayed there until very nearly tea-time, and then they had a Very Nearly tea, which is one you forget about afterwards, and hurried on to Pooh Corner, so as to see Eeyore before it was too late to have a Proper Tea with Owl.

  A. A. Milne

  Home, Owl, Tea

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• Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Beautiful, Order, Tea

  Andrew Forbes, David Henley, Okakura Kakuzo “The Illustrated Book of Tea”

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• I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed.

  Diane Cilento

  Home, Naughty, People

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