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Quotes About Teapot

Nobody can prove that there is not between the Earth and Mars a china teapot revolving in an elliptic orbit.
~ Steven Pinker
My costume was a failure; it did not fit me. They had always jeered at me for my thinness and in this dress I looked like an English teapot.
~ bernhardt sarah iii
trivial incidents can loom large and threatening in a community that's closed off from the outside. If you live in the teapot, the tempest fills your entire world.
~ Susan Wittig Albert
There are few hours in life more agreeable than the ceremony known as afternoon tea
~ Henry James
E. M. Forster never gets any further than warming the teapot. He's a rare fine hand at that. Feel this teapot. Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but there ain't going to be no tea.
~ Katherine Mansfield
Oh, and if the Nazgûl aren't already on the alert for reports of vampires entering the country, I'm a chocolate teapot.
~ Charles Stross
Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love.
~ Patti Smith
It is always best when discussing serious matters to do so around a teapot.
~ Gordon Dahlquist
Outside of a teapot life is but thousands of dusty affairs.
~ Terri Guillemets
Couldn't something temporary be done with a teapot?
~ Charles Dickens
Water is the mother of tea, a teapot its father, and fire the teacher.
~ Chinese proverb
Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
~ Saki (H.H. Munro), "Tea"
They sipped and shared next to a teapot of whistling wishes and steaming dreams.
~ Terri Guillemets
pour a rainbow from a teapot— drink of happiness and love warmth, calmness, and peace— breathing deep misty dreams
~ Terri Guillemets
Outside of a teapot life is but thousands of dusty affairs.
~ Terri Guillemets
What I mean is, if you're absolutely off your rocker, but don't find it convenient to be scooped into the luny-bin, you simply explain that, when you said you were a teapot, it was just your Artistic Temperament, and they apologize and go away. So I stood by to hear just how the A.T. had affected Clarence, the Cat's Friend, ready for anything.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
if you're absolutely off your rocker, but don't find it convenient to be scooped into the luny-bin, you simply explain that, when you said you were a teapot, it was just your Artistic Temperament, and they apologise and go away.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Water is the mother of tea, a teapot its father, and fire the teacher.
~ Chinese proverb
Mrs. Hilly had gone for the Swindon/Szechuan fusion menu and had steak and chips dim sum followed by hot Fanta in a teapot.
~ Jasper Fforde
As the dragon charged it released huge clouds of hissing steam through its nostrils. It was almost as if a gigantic teapot had gone mad.
~ Heywood Broun
It was a father, one hand resting teapot-style on his hip, and the other - what would be the spout - formed into a fist.
~ David Sedaris
The steel kettle shone, a slow furl of steam at its spout, vaguely suggestive of genie and lamp. Oh, grant me a wish, just the one.
~ John Banville
to my room.   Sheriff John Moultrie blew through his teeth and pursed lips, making a sound more akin to a steaming teapot than a whistle. The tune was "On the Road to Alabam'," a melody he'd picked up from watching gangs of gandy dancers as a child; he'd forgotten the words, but the ditty remained part of his grain.
~ Nancy E. Turner
must confess that I do not understand why things are so arranged, that women should seize us by the nose as deftly as they do the handle of a teapot. Either their hands are so constructed or else our noses are good for nothing else.
~ Nikolai Gogol